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From: Brian Clapper <bmc@WillsCreek.COM>
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To: Doug Jolley <doug@bigwheel.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Getting a file from CD-ROM
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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/
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