Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 00:10:44 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: TG@TechSoft.de (Thilo Gelenk) Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD2.2.2 decompressing under DOS - HOW?? Message-ID: <19971022001044.WO18163@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <1DDAFB60043@TechSoft.de>; from Thilo Gelenk on Oct 21, 1997 17:21:48 %2B0100 References: <1DDAFB60043@TechSoft.de>
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As Thilo Gelenk wrote: > Hi folks, > I have bought the FreeBSD 2.2.2 CDs to get the source > code. It is contained on the CD under /src, but I need to > run "sh install.sh", what seems to be possible only under > BSD (so I have first to install it). Not really. The files are split gnuzipped tar archives. There's a GNU zip (gzip) available on DOS to unzip them. There's more than one tar available for DOS. And, you can use copy /b src.aa+src.ab+src.ac ... +src.XX src.tgz to assemble the pieces into a .tar.gz (in DOS: .tgz) file in the first place. DOS doesn't have true pipes, so you can't do this on the fly but must devote the disk space. If your machine is reasonably fast, it's probably faster to install FreeBSD though. :-) Installing a bindist only gets away with probably not more than 5 minutes. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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