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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: compression
Message-ID: <2910@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 19 Jul 89 09:31:03 GMT
References: <2888@ast.cs.vu.nl> <3545@altos86.Altos.COM>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
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In article <3545@altos86.Altos.COM> dtynan@altos86.Altos.COM (Dermot Tynan) writes:
>The big problem with a scheme like this, is the
>install script has to be pretty bullet-proof.  Comments?

I agree it is essential.  For a distribution, what I would like is to boot
MINIX in the usual way, then on the /usr diskette have a small shell
script that copies things to hard disk and decompresses them.  
The decompression should just be a regular program, but there is no
objection to it's using disk files, as MINIX will be running when it is
called.

ANdy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)