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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Questions: X server, the patched kernel, and .... Message-ID: <=ytnnf-.hasty@netcom.com> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 19:05:33 GMT Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <1992Sep10.004644.9243@umr.edu> Lines: 46 In article <1992Sep10.004644.9243@umr.edu> jlu@cs.umr.edu (Eric Jui-Lin Lu) writes: > >Greetings *, > >I fetched the X server and the patched kernel for X from >pub/incoming/X386. I found that ps works correctly with the patched >kernel. However, I have some questions: > >1. What kind of patches were put into this kernel? The readme file states the patches that were applied with respect to X. Additionally, the diffs for the patches were included. >2. The X server is roughly 1MB while the X server I got from > pub/386BSD/0.1-ports/X386 is roughly 11 MB. In other words, > the debugging info is around 10MB. Am I correct? You are correct. >3. Is there a way to split the files so that it'll fit into > either 1.2M or 1.44M floppies? If you like you can use tar with the multi-volume option. >4. Except that the X server from pub/incoming/X386 is more stable, Do you have any problems with the new server? I am just looking for feedback.... > do I have to get the rest bin, inc, lib, etc. files? Can I > use the files from /pub/386BSD/0.1-ports/X386? For support reasons, I recommend getting the entire release. > >Thanks in advance! You can either post the answer here or email >me at jlu@cs.umr.edu. > > > --Eric >-- >***************************************--- Grad. student ---* >* Obviousness is always the enemy of * \ Jui-Lin Lu (Eric) / * >* correctness. -- Bertrand Russell * / jlu@cs.umr.edu \ * >***************************************--- Univ. of Missouri-Rolla ---* Amancio Hasty