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Date:      Tue, 14 May 1996 09:39:07 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        jin@george.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG])
Cc:        bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: errros on making floppies
Message-ID:  <199605140739.JAA02074@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199605131745.KAA16427@george.lbl.gov> from "Jin Guojun[ITG]" at "May 13, 96 10:45:40 am"

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As Jin Guojun[ITG] wrote:
> 
> I am trying to figure out why NFS installation fails on our network.
> When I tried to make floppies I get following errors. Please advice
> how I can make these floppies.
> 
> # make boot.flp
> rm -f release.4 release.8

Err, you're trying to make just the floppies, without ``make
release''?  Sorry, nobody contributed the Makefile addition to do
this.  /usr/src/release is -- as the name might suggest -- release
engineering stuff.  You can roll your own release with it (assuming
you've got the required environment: full CVS, 400 MB of additional
space to burn), but *that's it*.  It has never been intended to do
more, and nobody stepped forward to implement the ``make floppies
only'' option.  (Naturally, people who _can_ make a full release won't
spend the energy to add another hook to the Makefile since it simply
doesn't pay off.  If i need the floppies, i _do_ a ``make release'',
and all it costs me is time.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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