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From: bde@runx.oz.au (Bruce Evans)
Subject: Re: Getting partial source
Message-ID: <1993Jan17.082728.1673@runx.oz.au>
Keywords: kernel source
Organization: RUNX Un*x Timeshare.  Sydney, Australia.
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Date: Sun, 17 Jan 93 08:27:28 GMT
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>I would like to make a new kernel, init and a few others, but I
>don't have enough disk space for the src01 distribution.  So I would
>like to get just the source files I need to compile the kernel, init
>and a few others.  What files are absolutely necessary to accomplish
>this?

You can get all the kernel sources except for headers from the first
5 or 6 parts of src01.  Otherwise the system is very badly packaged,
having important headers at the end of the binary distribution, 30MB
away.

Bruce
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Bruce Evans  (bde@runx.oz.au)