Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 11:43:14 PST From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> To: "Fiore, William" <Fiowi01@mail.cai.com> Cc: support@cdrom.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cdrom distribution files Message-ID: <9711111943.AA16153@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Nov 1997 09:47:56 PST." <314E26C1801AD1119C3000805FD40926118DA8@usilms05.cai.com>
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In message <314E26C1801AD1119C3000805FD40926118DA8@usilms05.cai.com>, you wri te: >Is their a way to look inside a cdrom distribution file without using\ >/stand/sysinstall to to unpack it? > >the old 386BSD distribution files could be examined via >zcat and cpio. > >Is their something similar that can be done with the 2.2.1 distrubtion >files? Can't you just cat <series>.[??] | tar -C <whereever> -xvzf - Thats what I did...I had a little script to do it... marty
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