On Fri, 21 Jun 1996, Brad Salai wrote:

> A question, I've always installed the snapshots from a Mac partition using
> the installer. I now have enough room on my netbsd partition for the
> tarballs, and wonder if there is anything that I have to watch out for if I
> tar zxvf them from /  ??

Single user mode, start in /
tar --unlink -xzvpf foo.tar.gz
Don't extract etc.tar.gz without saving /etc :-)

--scott