At 9:26 AM 11/22/95, Raymond J Richards wrote:
>> Also, a snapshot wouldn't help me.  It has to be installed in UNIX, doesn't
>> it?  I don't have a working system yet!  Thus, I can't install it! I was
>> just asking around to see if there was a way to install a fresh, brand new
>> system on a IIvx without being a genius at MacBSD.  (Or is an undocumented
>> feature of the installer that it can install snapshots?  And if so, how do
>> i take apart a "tar" file on a mac?????? )
>
>I have a IIVX with a very limited amount of disk space (100MB), so I do not
>re-compile the system... But I have been able to keep up with NetBSD current by
>installing the snapshots, using the installer. This can be done in one of two
>ways, using the install menu command (which installs tar'ed but not compressed
>files), or starting the mini shell and using its install commands (type ? for a
>list of commands).

Then would you say that 80 MB HD and 5 MB RAM is limited?
Thanks for telling me how to use the snapshots though.  'preciate it.

>Or, if you want to go through the trouble... There are utilities for the
>make that
>will tar or untar files, you could untar the snapshot and cpin all of the
>files to
>the correct directories. :-(

No thanks.  :)

Shawn.

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