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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to unpack kernel source code ?
Date: 6 Oct 1995 23:51:01 +0100
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Jaroslaw Bazydlo <jarekb@ire.pw.edu.pl> wrote:

>I want to install a kernel source code in my system. I've downloaded a src/*
>files. The question is how to unpack and install it. I noticed it is not a 
>tar/gziped archive. Mayby it has something to do with CPIO.

cd /usr/src
cat /cdrom/dists/src/ssys.* | gzip -d -c | tar -xvf -
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)