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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Xf8632--2.1.7 CD-ROM
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On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Richard J. Linane wrote:

> I have succesfully installed 2.1.7 BSD to an extended dos partitian of
> my hard drive.  I had to do this from the DOS Part. because my CD-ROM
> Drive is not supported ( TEAC CD55A IDE )by BSD. 
> I only have 247MB of free space on my existing Bootable DOS Partitian
> and I want to install some of the packages to my free BSD Slice.
> I was  wondering if anyone could tell me how to split up packages to
> install Xfree86 3.2 and other distributions.

If you have access to another UNIX box, you can use the 'split' command to
chop them up into bite-sized chunks.  You could also install the base
system, then install XFree later.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major