Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 17:36:22 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Clapper <bmc@WillsCreek.COM> To: Doug Jolley <doug@bigwheel.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting a file from CD-ROM Message-ID: <199712072236.RAA06207@current.willscreek.com> In-Reply-To: <199712072117.QAA06105@current.willscreek.com> References: <199712070333.TAA25982@jupiter.neptune.net> <199712072117.QAA06105@current.willscreek.com>
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I wrote:
> There are several ways to get the file you mentioned, /etc/rc.conf:
>
> 1. Get it from the "source" distribution tarball. Mount the installation
> CD-ROM. `cd' to its "bin" subdirectory, and run the following command.
^^^
Sorry, make that "src".
> That command will put the gzipped tarball back together again,
> uncompress it, and extract "etc/rc.conf" onto standard output, which is
> then redirected to "/tmp/rc.conf". Note the lack of leading "/" in
> "etc/rc.conf".
>
> cat setc.?? | tar xzfO - etc/rc.conf >/tmp/rc.conf
>
> 2. Get it from the "bin" distribution tarball. Mount the installation
> CD-ROM. `cd' to its "bin" subdirectory, and run the following command.
>
> cat bin.?? | tar xzfO - etc/rc.conf >/tmp/rc.conf
>
> This will take longer than #1, since the "bin" tarball is enormous.
>
> 3. Get it from the source CD-ROM. This time, you don't need to worry about
> a tarball at all; "/etc/rc.conf" exists as a separate file on the live
> file system. Put the "live file system" CD-ROM in your drive and mount
> it. You'll find "rc.conf" in the "etc" subdirectory on that disk.
>
> 4. It's also in the CVS repository disk, if you have Walnut Creek's
> 2.2.5-RELEASE CD-ROM set.
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Brian Clapper, bmc@WillsCreek.COM, http://WWW.WillsCreek.COM/
Osborn's Law: Variables won't; constants aren't.
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