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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD by FTPing to my Win95 machine
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On Sun, 16 Mar 1997, David Benjamin Newcum wrote:

> I have no CDROM in my FreeBSD machine, so I'm installing it by accessing
> the CDROM on my Win95 machine over the network using Serv-U ftp server.
> 
>   (Note: I ran into a problem accessing the FTP server because I didn't
>    need the gateway or name server fields configured...  if anyone is 
>    trying to install using this method, you need to put 0.0.0.0 in both
>    of those or you'll 'Fatal signal 11 caught.  I'm dead...'.  It's 
>    a bug in sysinstall.)
> 
> I can install FreeBSD and get it working, but when I try to install any of
> the packages from the CD, it doesn't work because Win95 won't read the
> files.  The files are there, but win95 reports them as having a file size
> of zero.  I assume that the cdrom uses a format that isn't exactly the FAT
> fs that win95 is looking for.  Is there any way to read it from Win95?

They should be there.  Try FTPing the files over manually and then using
the pkg_add command against them.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major