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Date:      Wed, 15 Jan 1997 15:54:53 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Keith Leonard <keithl@wakko.gil.net>
Cc:        ds <ds@corinne.mac.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 2.1.6 floppy installation
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970115155324.5627D-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970114203408.19340A-100000@wakko.gil.net>

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On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Keith Leonard wrote:

> BTW you can copy the manpages.?? to your harddrive and 'cat' them to a
> single tar file and then untar from the / directory  if it fails [and 
> it does] during the install (this is for everyone
> else, Doug.)

Yes.  You can manually extract distributions by running the 'install.sh'
file or by running

cat manpages.* | tar xzf - 

You may want to run tar with t instead of x to see where the files will
land.  You may need to run this from /usr.  

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




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