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From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
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Subject: Re: [386bsd] etc extract fails too many files open
Date: 19 Jan 1993 19:37:51 GMT
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In article <1993Jan19.060914.8583@dlgsys.cuc.ab.ca>
dlgover@dlgsys.cuc.ab.ca (Donald L. Gover) writes:
>  
> After install the bin01 stuff from dos based disks I tryed to install
> the etc01 stuff the same way. extract ran for a while and then failed
> with cat: too many files open, on the last 20 or so files.

After extracting bin01, you should boot the installed system before
trying to extract etc01 or src01.

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