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From: Rich Murphey <rich@lamprey.utmb.edu>
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To: lrnamrca@ix.netcom.com
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Subject: Re: Getting  XFree86-3.1 from DOS??
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|From: lrnamrca@ix.netcom.com (D. Duke Smith )
|
|Hi -
|
|I'm having some difficulty getting loaded from the
|Walnut Creek CD:
|
|1) It looks for a CD at 0x300; my SoundBlaster 16ASP
|   can only be at 220, 240, 260, or 280. How can I
|   change the I/O @ of /dev/mcd0?
|
|2) I was able to get most of the system by putting a
|   DOS (Yecch!) partition on the disk & copying the 
|   distributions to it, but I can't create a directory
|   called xfree86-3.1 due to the filename length res-
|   trictions of DOS. Is there any hope of ever getting
|   X on my system? Anyway, the directory name on the CD 
|   is , but the install routine looks for the
|   other name.
|
|3) Once I have gotten some of the system loaded, how
|   can I install additional packages without going 
|   through the install procedure which newfs's every-
|   thing? Sysinstall didn't seem to want to let me
|   do this either.

You can also simply unpack all of X yourself using:

cd /usr
for i in /dos/..../XFREE86_/X31*.tgz; do
  tar xzf $i
done

or in 'csh' syntax:

cd /usr
foreach i (/dos/..../XFREE86_/X31*.tgz)
  tar xzf $i
end

Then remove the manifest file if you like:

rm /usr/MANIF*

Rich