Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 10:57:42 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Robert Urban <urban@rto.dec.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: floppy install of 2.2-960612-SNAP (2) Message-ID: <15813.837971862@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 21 Jul 1996 17:04:03 %2B0200." <31F246E3.2FB2@rto.dec.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> Hello people,
>
> I created a floppy with a:\bin\bin.{inf,aa,ab,ac,ad,ae} and it still
> doesn't work. In the debug virtual console I see:
Hmmmm. I don't actually test the floppy install much anymore as it's
simply too painful and I've usually got 1001 other things to test
which require less pain, so I do those in preference. In previous
times people would actually help me test this *before* release, but no
such luck these days. :-(
>From looking at your output, it seems as though perhaps a bug has
crept in which requires the files to be under a dist directory
(e.g. a:\dist\bin\bin.{inf,aa,ab,...}). Could you give that a shot
and let me know if it has any effect?
> what is going on?? a request for *.tgz give me a bad feeling, like it's not
> even looking for bin.aa,bin.ab...
Not to worry, it always looks for a "whole piece" file first, then goes
on to look for an info files (bin.inf in this case) which identifies
how many piece files to look for. I see the probe for bin.inf in your
output, so it looks like it simply can't find any of the files.
> and what's the *.mtree stuff for? If I copy it to a dos floppy it becomes
> *.MTR of course.
That's just for security - it's an mtree file for all files extracted
by the bindist so that you can verify your system later against it and
see if anything has changed (perhaps from a break-in attempt or filesystem
corruption). You don't actually need it for installatino.
> I would *really* like to get this installed today (if technically possible),
> so replies would *really* be appreciated. You all read you mail on sunday,
> right? :-)
Some of us do. :-)
> Also: please reply to <urban@alfam7.enet.dec.com> as our mail hub is currentl
I just reply to whatever's in the headers, man. You want a special
reply-to, set it! :-)
Jordan
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?15813.837971862>