From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Aug 3 17:47:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA06884 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 17:47:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt053nd2.san.rr.com (dt053nd2.san.rr.com [204.210.34.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA06877 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 17:47:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt053nd2.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA07739; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 17:47:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Message-ID: <35C65A1C.8896AE7B@dal.net> Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 17:47:24 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE-0507 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Brown CC: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Documentation on boot floppy References: <19980803000447.A17692@tardis.ed.ac.uk> <35C6255C.E63572CE@dal.net> <19980803223346.A26455@tardis.ed.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mark Brown wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 02:02:20PM -0700, Studded wrote: > > > Mark Brown wrote: > > > > It would be nice if the documentation on the boot floppy was avalible > > > (more obviously?) from outside the floppy. > > > Can you provide more details as to what you mean by available? Exactly > > what would you like to see? Keep in mind that every byte on the boot > > floppy is precious, so the chances that the files can be duplicated in a > > manner differently than they are now is small. > > They're there (I assume). The trouble is that any attempt to view them > fails, apparently due to lack of memory. Ahhh... gotcha. Well I seem to recall that you're trying to install in a very low memory situation, which is difficult at best. You can view most of the documentation on the ftp site in the *.TXT documents though. Good luck, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** When you don't know where you're going, every road will take you there. - Yiddish Proverb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message