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>
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> 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
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