Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 23:50:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: jamah@cs.rpi.edu (Jon Mah) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, jamah@cs.rpi.edu, questions@FreeBSD.org, bugs@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 2.1.5 installation does not work. Message-ID: <199607152150.XAA18074@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199607151759.NAA23592@eggbeater.cs.rpi.edu> from Jon Mah at "Jul 15, 96 01:59:39 pm"
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As Jon Mah wrote: > This is an idea I was hypothesizing about, since > I know that the 2.0/2.1 FTP installs have worked fine for me, > would it be possible to use a boot disk from 2.0 (or 2.1) and > change the release to be retrieved to "2.1.5-RELEASE". Alas, this won't work. 2.0.5 and 2.1 used to have this mysterious ``root floppy'' which has been eliminated now. The crucial part is the the `inf' files used to live on just that floppy, but are now scattered through the dist directories. (They contain the information about the number of files to load, size, and checksum.) -- 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. ;-)
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