From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 21 10:59:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA18327 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 21 Jul 1996 10:59:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA18321; Sun, 21 Jul 1996 10:59:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA15815; Sun, 21 Jul 1996 10:57:42 -0700 (PDT) To: Robert Urban cc: questions@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: floppy install of 2.2-960612-SNAP (2) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 21 Jul 1996 17:04:03 +0200." <31F246E3.2FB2@rto.dec.com> Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 10:57:42 -0700 Message-ID: <15813.837971862@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hello people, > > I created a floppy with a:\bin\bin.{inf,aa,ab,ac,ad,ae} and it still > doesn't work. In the debug virtual console I see: Hmmmm. I don't actually test the floppy install much anymore as it's simply too painful and I've usually got 1001 other things to test which require less pain, so I do those in preference. In previous times people would actually help me test this *before* release, but no such luck these days. :-( >From looking at your output, it seems as though perhaps a bug has crept in which requires the files to be under a dist directory (e.g. a:\dist\bin\bin.{inf,aa,ab,...}). Could you give that a shot and let me know if it has any effect? > what is going on?? a request for *.tgz give me a bad feeling, like it's not > even looking for bin.aa,bin.ab... Not to worry, it always looks for a "whole piece" file first, then goes on to look for an info files (bin.inf in this case) which identifies how many piece files to look for. I see the probe for bin.inf in your output, so it looks like it simply can't find any of the files. > and what's the *.mtree stuff for? If I copy it to a dos floppy it becomes > *.MTR of course. That's just for security - it's an mtree file for all files extracted by the bindist so that you can verify your system later against it and see if anything has changed (perhaps from a break-in attempt or filesystem corruption). You don't actually need it for installatino. > I would *really* like to get this installed today (if technically possible), > so replies would *really* be appreciated. You all read you mail on sunday, > right? :-) Some of us do. :-) > Also: please reply to as our mail hub is currentl I just reply to whatever's in the headers, man. You want a special reply-to, set it! :-) Jordan