Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 13:42:07 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: Paula Atchison <paula.atchison@vivacenet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CD ROM Message-ID: <20000524134207.B24045@athena.sea.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <392C291C.BD428009@vivacenet.com>; from Paula Atchison on Wed, May 24, 2000 at 12:10:20PM -0700 References: <392C291C.BD428009@vivacenet.com>
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On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 12:10:20PM -0700, Paula Atchison wrote:
> Dear Madame's and Sirs,
>
> Help, please.
>
> I've purchased your FreeBSD 4.0 CD's with the intent of looking at the
> INET (C) source code.
> I don't want to install the operating system on my PC (currently running
> NT, ick).
>
> Is it possible to install the software without installing the OS on my
> PC, thus extracting the
> source code?
>
> If not, are the source code files extractable from the CD in some other
> manner?
> (I've had no luck with the *.tgz files in \packages\all directory using
> winzip)
>
Unless there is a new Micro$oft FreeBSD emulator out there,
you will need to install the Berkeley OS itself to run FBSD
binaries.
If you have expertise in software porting you could try
porting the source, or parts of it.
Dunno how you can gunzip and untar the tarballs, but the
source is probably on the Life Filesystem CD.
---Anybody else?
gary
--
Gary Kline
Cray Inc
Seattle, Washington
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