From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Jan 28 02:22:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA13642 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 02:22:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA13629 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 02:21:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA12495; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 11:21:50 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA05155; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 11:21:50 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id LAA01779; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 11:11:28 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601281011.LAA01779@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Installation of FreeBSD-2.1 from DOS partition To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 11:11:27 +0100 (MET) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, jeff@stat.uconn.edu, bugs@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <19412.822821518@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 28, 96 01:31:58 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > I think it should go into c:/freebsd/dists/bin, but i don't have a DOS > > partition to test it... > What, root.flp? No, most definitely not. It should go in c:\freebsd\floppies Nope, not root.flp, the bin.aa ... bin.XX files. Anyway, this guy has a weird problem. He's always getting ``gzip - invalid compressed data, format violated'', i.e. the files are there and cpio starts extracting, but despite of him telling us that he's verified that the CDROM and disk files are identically, sysinstall doesn't read them right. :( -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)