From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 30 15:10:35 1994 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id PAA02524 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 30 Dec 1994 15:10:35 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA02516 for ; Fri, 30 Dec 1994 15:10:34 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA03427; Fri, 30 Dec 1994 15:10:22 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: time.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: jerryk@indy.net (Jerry Kelley) cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: floppy installation In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 30 Dec 94 08:09:38 EST." <199412301309.AA14604@IndyNet.indy.net> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 1994 15:10:21 -0800 Message-ID: <3426.788829021@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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