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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: 1.2-1.3.tar upgrade HELP!!!
Message-ID: <13288@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 26 Dec 88 00:29:27 GMT
References: <3930@hubcap.UUCP> <15075@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.os.minix
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <15075@mimsy.UUCP> by jds@mimsy.UUCP (James da Silva):
+---------------
| I admit with shame that I did this on a Real Unix system; I don't know if
| patch under Minix will lose its lunch on such a large file.  I've heard of
| problems with patch running out of temp file space, so watch out for that.
+---------------

You can mount an HD partition on /tmp if you do it while /etc/update is not
running.  I have a customized root floppy which builds a minimal (80K)
ramdisk root and mounts disk partitions as /tmp and /usr (Minix source is in
/usr/src, so /user is reserved as a mount point for a floppy).  My /tmp
partition is something like 1.7MB; this is plenty enough for patch.

++Brandon
-- 
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