Date: 02 Sep 2005 08:59:19 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: andyk <andyk@rogers.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: duplicate file names in iso - extraction to dos partition for dos install Message-ID: <448xyfsk0o.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <1125607069.13789.7.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> References: <000801c5af38$578ac9f0$dc0cfea9@cr583400a> <1125607069.13789.7.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk>
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Robert Slade <bsd@bathnetworks.com> 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.
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