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From: frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-)
Subject: Re: NetBSD-0.9 Installation
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Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1993 12:02:48 GMT
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In article <CI67CC.I8A@ariel.cs.yorku.ca>,
S DAVID PULLARA <cs932003@ariel.cs.yorku.ca> wrote:
>  a) the INSTALL_NOTES tells me to run `configure' after I extract
>     the distriburtions (base09, etc09, ...).  However, `configure'
>     isn't recognized when I type it at the shell prompt, and I can't
>     seem to find it in the file system.  Any suggestions?

configure is an sh function defined in the root .profile
You need to be running the default shell and so on.

>  b) this may be unimportant, but the install notes also mention
>     files such as /etc/sendmail.cf which is also absent from the
>     file system.

This is set up by the configure function.

>David Pullara


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