Installing additional sets

[Deja User]

Hello, I installed netbsd 1.5.2 to my sparc IPX and I only installed
some of the sets because of low disk space. Now it looks like
there is still some space left so I`d like to install the compiler
and maybe games. Is there some other program than sysinst for doing
this? sysinst worked very well for the install but if I can avoid
booting the the system again from floppies it would be nicer...
thanks, Vesa X

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[Jeff Rizzo]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 06:46:35AM -0700, Deja User wrote:
> Hello, I installed netbsd 1.5.2 to my sparc IPX and I only installed
> some of the sets because of low disk space. Now it looks like
> there is still some space left so I`d like to install the compiler
> and maybe games. Is there some other program than sysinst for doing
> this? sysinst worked very well for the install but if I can avoid
> booting the the system again from floppies it would be nicer...
> thanks, Vesa X
>

The "sets" are nothing but gzipped tar files, so you can use "tar" or "pax"
to install them.

Say you had "comp.tar.gz" in /tmp; then you'd do this:

cd /
pax -zrpe -f /tmp/comp.tar.gz

...and the same for any of the other sets. You may wish to do this from
single-user mode, but it's not strictly necessary.

Also, be careful NOT to extract the "etc.tar.gz" set, as it will wipe
out much of your system's configuration!

+j

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