From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 16 14:07:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA22326 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 16 Mar 1997 14:07:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from arthur.cs.purdue.edu (0@arthur.cs.purdue.edu [128.10.2.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA22279 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 1997 14:06:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from lore.cs.purdue.edu (1532@lore.cs.purdue.edu [128.10.2.16]) by arthur.cs.purdue.edu (8.8.4/PURDUE_CS-1.4) with ESMTP id RAA12496 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 1997 17:06:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (newcumdb@localhost) by lore.cs.purdue.edu (8.8.4/PURDUE_CS-1.4) with SMTP id RAA22808 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 1997 17:06:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 17:06:25 -0500 (EST) From: David Benjamin Newcum To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Installing FreeBSD by FTPing to my Win95 machine Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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? Thanks in advance, David Newcum