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From: jds@mimsy.UUCP (James da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Size of PC 1.3
Message-ID: <16444@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 89 21:57:26 GMT
References: <13484@ncoast.ORG>
Reply-To: jds@mimsy.umd.edu (James da Silva)
Organization: University of Maryland, Department of Computer Science
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In article <13484@ncoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>Now that I've got 1.2 up and (mostly) running (anyone have the proper 1.2
>ordering of /usr/lib/libc.a?), I want to upgrade to 1.3.  Only problem is,
>the tar file is 8MB compressed... here I am, working comfortably in a 5MB
>disk partition, and now this.  What am I getting myself into?  Am I going to
>need to dedicate my entire hard drive to 1.3, at least while doing the
>upgrade?

I think you're off by an order of magnitude.  The upgrade tar file on
bugs.nosc.mil is ~800K bytes.  It uncompresses to about 1.7 MB.  If Minix
1.3 were 8 Meg compressed, the PC distribution would take ~23 disks at
least!

Still, 5 meg might be uncomfortably tight.  10 meg would be plenty.  I
suggest you grab the recent 1.3 libc.a that AST mailed to the archivers;
bugs should have it.  That would solve your ordering problems, and releive
you from the burden of having to deal with upgrading the library first.

Jaime
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