Date: Fri, 30 Dec 1994 15:10:21 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: jerryk@indy.net (Jerry Kelley) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: floppy installation Message-ID: <3426.788829021@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Dec 94 08:09:38 EST." <199412301309.AA14604@IndyNet.indy.net>
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> I'm in the processing of downloading all of the Free BSD files from Walnut > Creek. The question I have that wasn't clearly answered in the install > notes is: would I copy all of the tar files to a DOS partition and then the > install program (from floppy) would un-tar and load from there? SInce I'm > not using the CD-ROM version, that'd be the only way I can see that all of > the files would be available to the install program. Just duplicate the *dist structure you see in the 2.0-RELEASE directory somewhere in your DOS partition. It will decend into each directory at the appropriate time and unpack the split/compressed tar files it finds there, as well as checksumming them first.. Jordan
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