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From: jeff@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG (Jeff Holmes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: MINIX 1.3 UPGRADE
Message-ID: <2229@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG>
Date: 20 Feb 89 14:41:16 GMT
Organization: Questar Data Systems; St. Paul, MN
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	I posted an article about problems running large shar
	files through sh on Minix 1.2.  The main problem seemed
	to be running out of space in /tmp.  Well I eventually
	got everything home by converting all shar files to
	tar files and it all unpacked very nicely.  Thanks
	to everyone who gave me suggestions.  
	
	Unfortunately my /tmp problems still exist.  While trying
	to apply the diffs for 1.3, patch told me there was no room
	on root device.  I have pretty much the original distribution
	of Minix 1.2 except for /usr being on my hard disk.

	My question is...is there anything I can do short of backing
	my hard disk up, and changing Minix so root resides on the hard
	disk? 

	Does this mean that someone with only 2 floppys can't upgrade
	to 1.3?  I removed 90% of the programs on root and went from
	85K free to 185K free space and it made no difference to patch.

	There must be something I'm not getting here,  how did the rest
	of you handle this?

	Thanks in advance
	-jeff-
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