From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 2 12:59:22 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BFEE16A41F for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 12:59:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail28.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail28.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF94843D48 for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 12:59:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 10651 invoked from network); 2 Sep 2005 12:59:21 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail28.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 2 Sep 2005 12:59:21 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 32AA374; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 08:59:20 -0400 (EDT) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: andyk , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <000801c5af38$578ac9f0$dc0cfea9@cr583400a> <1125607069.13789.7.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 02 Sep 2005 08:59:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1125607069.13789.7.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> Message-ID: <448xyfsk0o.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 32 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Subject: Re: duplicate file names in iso - extraction to dos partition for dos install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 12:59:22 -0000 Robert Slade writes: > On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 22:01, andyk wrote: > > Hi, > > I searched high and low, to answer my question, now I'm hoping you can help. > > > > I want to do an install of 5.4 from a dos partition. as I was extracting the files from the iso/archive to the dos partition, I got a lot of seemingly duplicate names, as dos considers "mail" and "Mail" the same. > > > > I renamed all the duplicates with a 2 after them, but I wonder what problems I will have when I try to do the install? > > > > I plan to buy the cd, but wanted to try out freeBSD before buying. > > > > I really appreciate any help - thanks, > > Andy > > _______________________________________________ > > Installing from a Dos partition is not an option. As you found out Fbsd > and unix in general does recognise file names of different cases as > being different files. Installing from a DOS partition certainly *is* an option, as described in the Handbook. Only the install distributions need to be present on the DOS partition, not the whole bootable system from the CD. http://be-well.ilk.org/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-diff-media.html#INSTALL-MSDOS > One point though FreeBSD is that it is Free. Why not use the CD to > produce a floppy disk set and use that to do a ftp install or you could > copy the CD(s). That will work. The directory structure needed on the FTP server is the same as that needed on a local MS-DOS partition. An FTP install from the official FTP servers has always been a good option.