From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 10 10:31:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA22438 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 10:31:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA22424 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 10:31:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA01202; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 10:30:32 -0800 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 10:30:32 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: making a set of floppies In-Reply-To: <9601101211.AA01999@cssmuc.frt.dec.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 10 Jan 1996 garyj@frt.dec.com wrote: > I'm trying to generate a set of 2.1R floppies for a colleague who wants > to install 2.1.R on his laptop. No, he can't do an FTP/NFS/TAPE install. > > I've read INSTALL.TXT, but it isn't clear to me whether I need to have > CHECKSUMS and/or install.sh on one/all floppies. If I remember correctly, you have to have it on one of them, since the install program doesn't care for sequence of disks -- it just knows how many there are. This was the way with 2.0.5, I don't know if it's still valid for 2.1. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major