Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 17:38:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Michael A. Endsley" <me@corecom.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: distribution directory II Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970823173610.366D-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970819183327.006c4ed8@pop.corecom.net>
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On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Michael A. Endsley wrote: > I don't know who to address this to, so.... > Isn't there some way to make "view/setup.exe" from the CD's to > load/transfer the distribution files from dos just like during initial > installation (via ftp)? view can run a special program which will start the kernel and sysinstall. On the CD, it's called 'fbsdboot.exe'. > Perhaps very few users are affected, but for me, buying 2 disks makes no > sense (cents??). I love FreeBSD, but if I have to d/l via ftp.....? It depends on your hardware setup. If you have cheap IDE CDROMs, well, there isn't a whole lot we can do for you since these things don't follow standards and are usually an itch propietary. > This is not in anger/frustation! Just don't understand why it works for > the binaries and nothing else. For some odd reason, I couldn't even get > the source code from the CD/dos during installation (Yes, it was on my HD). I don't know why you can get bin but nothing else. Perhaps you're forgetting to copy the *.inf files along with the archives? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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