Subject: Re: how to install binaries?
To: Daniel Koo <danielh@uol.com.br>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-install
Date: 03/24/1997 15:23:46
On Mon, 24 Mar 97 19:04:59 PST 
 Daniel Koo <danielh@uol.com.br> wrote:

 > 	Dear friends of NetBSD,
 > 
 > 	I want to install some binaries after i have installed and then 
 > booted the System with the base and comp binaries.
 >                 The Extract command is not existent.
 > 
 > 	Thanks for your appreciate,

The release binaries are just in .tar.gz format ... you can:

	cd /
	tar --unlink -zxvpf file.tar.gz

to extract them.  The "extract" command is a special case for the install
floppies.

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