Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 10:52:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Murali Bashyam <mbashyam@cisco.com> To: marko@freebsd.org (Mark Ovens) Cc: mbashyam@cisco.com (Murali Bashyam), freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD tar files Message-ID: <200008081752.KAA28753@omega.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <20000804185638.D236@parish> from "Mark Ovens" at Aug 04, 2000 06:56:38 PM
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When i try to extract the tar files on a SUN SPARC sunOS 5.6 machine (i.e i run the install.sh shell script) i get the following error tar: /dev/rmt/0: No such file or directory Looks like the files are setup to extract from a tape device only? Has anybody seen this before. Can they be extracted only on a system running FREEBSD? Thanks, Murali > > On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 10:35:10AM -0700, Murali Bashyam wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 08:03:07PM -0700, Murali Bashyam wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > > > > > Where can i find tar.gz files of FREEBSD source code? A mirror site (URL) which has > > > > the source code in the form of tar files will help. > > > > > > > > > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.1-RELEASE/src/ > > > > > > for 4.1 sources. If you want another version (-stable or -current for > > > example) then start at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ and follow > > > your nose. > > > > > > BTW the files have .aa, .ab, .ac etc. extensions. They are .tgz > > > tarballs but then split(1) into ~240KB chunks to allow easy install > > > from floppies. They are first cat(1)'ed together then piped to tar(1), > > > e.g.: > > > > > > for i in $dists; do > > > echo " Extracting source component: $i" > > > cat s${i}.?? | tar --unlink -xpzf - -C ${DESTDIR}/usr/src > > > done > > > > > > See the file install.sh in each sub-directory. > > > > I am sitting behind a firewall, which for some reason does not allow me > > to ftp this stuff. > > I believe using ftp in passive mode allows you to do this (never had > to use it myself). > > > If there is a 'single' tar.gz file or a few 'tar.gz' > > files of directories such as include,src,lib etc, > > Not hat i am aware of. If there is, then hopefully someone else will > jump in and tell you. > > > then that will help > > easy download using netscape browser. Downloading each of these split files > > is clearly pain. BTW, i was able to download NetBSD or OPENBSD this way. > > Is there a similar mechanism for FREEBSD? > > > > Thanks, > > Murali > > > > > > > > HTH > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Murali > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > -- > > > If I buy a copy of WinDelete, and it doesn't delete Windows, > > > am I entitled to my money back? > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > > 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org > > > 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark > > > mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > If I buy a copy of WinDelete, and it doesn't delete Windows, > am I entitled to my money back? > ________________________________________________________________ > 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org > 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark > mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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