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1.TH MKDIST 8
2.SH NAME
3mkdist \- make a MINIX 3 distribution
4.SH SYNOPSIS
5.B mkdist
6.SH DESCRIPTION
7.B Mkdist
8makes a MINIX 3 distribution on floppies. Run the command as
9.B root
10and follow the instructions. It will make one or two bootable installation
11floppies and a compressed tar file of
12.B /usr
13on several floppies using
14.BR vol (1).
15.PP
16The result can be installed on another system as described in
17.BR usage (8),
18except that all of
19.B /usr
20is saved on one set of floppies instead of being nicely split in binary
21and source packages.
22.SH "SEE ALSO"
23.BR tar (1),
24.BR compress (1),
25.BR vol (1),
26.BR usage (8).
27.SH NOTES
28Also very useful for making backups.
29.SH AUTHOR
30Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
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