From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Oct 21 15:23:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA13938 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 15:23:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA13918 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 15:23:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA23009; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 00:23:36 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id AAA18627; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 00:10:44 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19971022001044.WO18163@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 00:10:44 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: TG@TechSoft.de (Thilo Gelenk) Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD2.2.2 decompressing under DOS - HOW?? References: <1DDAFB60043@TechSoft.de> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <1DDAFB60043@TechSoft.de>; from Thilo Gelenk on Oct 21, 1997 17:21:48 +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Thilo Gelenk wrote: > Hi folks, > I have bought the FreeBSD 2.2.2 CDs to get the source > code. It is contained on the CD under /src, but I need to > run "sh install.sh", what seems to be possible only under > BSD (so I have first to install it). Not really. The files are split gnuzipped tar archives. There's a GNU zip (gzip) available on DOS to unzip them. There's more than one tar available for DOS. And, you can use copy /b src.aa+src.ab+src.ac ... +src.XX src.tgz to assemble the pieces into a .tar.gz (in DOS: .tgz) file in the first place. DOS doesn't have true pipes, so you can't do this on the fly but must devote the disk space. If your machine is reasonably fast, it's probably faster to install FreeBSD though. :-) Installing a bindist only gets away with probably not more than 5 minutes. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)