Subject: Re: X-Server for SE/30
To: Jim Kidd <jimk@is01.wvpa.com>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/18/1998 09:25:21
Jim Kidd wrote:
> I would use the installer to install it. I am suspicious of that 'cpin'
> and 'cpout' in the minishell.
I'm not. It works just fine for me, and NetBSD-side installs are a lot
faster than under the Installer.
Anyway, to do the install, use:
tar --unlink --xzvpf /path/to/tar/file
although I think that that --unlink might be unnecessary with our current
incarnation of tar.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Fischer [SMTP:roger@badger1.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 1998 10:41
> To: port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG
> Cc: rgfischer@mail.hac.com
> Subject: Re: X-Server for SE/30
>
>
> OK, tried that. Got the same error. I had deleted everything under fonts.
> I left /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts , but left fonts dir empty.
>
> maybe I'll try using cpin in the installer mini shell to copy the file to
> BSD and then expand it in there. Are there any particular flags to the
> xtar command I should be aware of when I do this?
>
> The fsck -fy turned up nothing.
How strange.
Well, I hope the above helps.
Later.
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Colin Wood cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6 Intel Corporation
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