Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 09:50:32 GMT From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: Brent.Hipp@msfc.nasa.gov Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: floppies? anywhere? Message-ID: <199607110950.JAA00939@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <v01520d01ae09ea5589c8@[128.158.52.68]> (Brent.Hipp@msfc.nasa.gov)
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> I've recently installed 2.0.5 from a floppy distribution of bin.aa-bin.cp. Yes, I've done this for several version of FreeBSD. Not much fun, is it? :-) > After the initial installation, several questions were asked about > configuring many aspects of the system, but each was looking for other > distributions (e.g. compat1x, etc). I've downloaded several : manpages, > games, compat1x and compat20. Now what? I've looked in the FAQ, but I > can't find how to access the floppy. I'd check the manpages but... Either # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /mnt [work with floppy as if it were a FreeBSD directory] # umount /mnt or install the mtools package, which will allow you to do things like mcopy a:*.* /some/where without having to mount and unmount the floppy each time. Once you've copied them onto your hard disk, do something like # cd /usr # cat /some/where/games.* | tar xzvf - (If you want advance warning of what you're about to get, which is always advisable, run it with "tvzf" instead of "xzvf" first). > Are there other distributions I will probably need? What about XF86312? > Is this XFree86 ver 3.1.2? I'll almost certainly need some of the packages > listed in that directory. How should I proceed to install them. Yes, it's ver 3.1.2 (to be precise, 3.1.2 with a security patch). Unlike the other dists, these have not been split up, so you can untar them directly:- # tar xzvf /some/where/else/X312bin.tgz > At this point I could start over with 2.1.0 I suppose, without much > headache, but downloading those 70+ bin.[a-c][a-z] files wasn't fun. Is > there a better approach to upgrade to 2.1.0? I don't know if my CD-ROM > will be recognized yet. I have downloaded the atapi.flp just in case. First of all, you may as well hold on for a week or so until 2.1.5 comes out. If you are able to do the installation while online, the simplest way is just to grab the boot floppy and let it pull down everything else it needs over FTP. If not, you can install over a network, or from a DOS partition on your hard disk (which can of course be re-formatted for FreeBSD when you've got everything working - no point wasting good disk space, is there? :-). -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/
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