Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 21:21:58 +0000 () From: James Raynard <fqueries@parody.tecc.co.uk> To: malcolm_boff@vnet.ibm.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding more options Post-Installation to FreeBSD.2.0.5 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951219211436.182B-100000@parody.tecc.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199512121519.HAA03925@mail.barrnet.net>
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On Tue, 12 Dec 1995 malcolm_boff@vnet.ibm.com wrote: > I have been attempting to install FreeBSD on a friends machine at the 2.0.5 > version level. His system has an unsupported CDROM (which gets corrected at > 2.1) and I have copied the basic distribution from CDROM to a DOS partition > and created a basic system. I would now like to wipe the contents of the > DOS partition (C:\FREEBSD) and pull more distributions from his CDROM (in > DOS) and then go back into FreeBSD and load them. I can find no info on how > to do this (or even if it is possible). Can anyone help ?? Yes, just mount the DOS partition under FreeBSD and then cat all the files for a particular distribution into a pipe and extract them. For example, with the manpages distribution, # mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s2 /mnt # cd / # cat /mnt/freebsd/manpages/manpages.* | tar xzvf - # umount /mnt Before you extract the files, it might be an idea to check where they are going. If you replace the 'x' (extract) flag by a 't' (test) in the tar command, it will list them without actually extracting them. If you find all that output distracting when doing it for real, omit the 'v' (verbose) flag. (NB I've assumed that the DOS partition is slice 2 of the first IDE hard disk, but it shouldn't be too hard to work out any necessary changes). James Segmentation fault (core dumped): cannot find file '.signature'
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