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Subject: How to get a shell from sysinstall
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 23:38:39 +0100
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From: Andras Olah <olah@cs.utwente.nl>
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I'm trying to install 2.1.0-950726-SNAP from floppies, but because I've
got access to a un*x machine, I wrote the floppies with tar.  I thought
that I would be able to manually extract the distributions by hand and
then proceed with the installation.  The problem is that I can't get a
shell to issue the magic tar command (and I know that tar is there because I
can see the commands used by sysinstall on the second screen.)

Any advice is welcome,
	Andras (lazy to rewrite 20+ floppies)