Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 09:50:56 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>, kris@obsecurity.org, andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu, jandrese@mitre.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO? Message-ID: <20010921095056.M61456@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <200109211448.f8LEmfd54113@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 07:48:41AM -0700 References: <3BA9EEED.B7F0A194@mitre.org> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10109202158410.14211-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> <20010920223730.A82191@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010920234553S.jkh@freebsd.org> <200109211448.f8LEmfd54113@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com>
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* Bruce A. Mah <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> [010921 09:49] wrote: > If memory serves me right, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > > I seem to recall these programs were owned by WCCDROM (then BSDi, then > > > > Naw, I'd long since prunted tools/ to just the stuff that was freely > > redistributable. Murray simply forgot to put it on the ISOs he > > created. :) > > OK, it sounds like I need to make an(other) entry in the errata file. > > What about something like: > > The tools/ directory of a FreeBSD CDROM distribution typically contains > some DOS programs for i386 machines, such as fdimage and fips. This > directory was inadvertently omitted from the 4.4-RELEASE ISO images > generated by the FreeBSD Project. The contents of the tools/ directory > are, however, available by anonymous FTP at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/ > FreeBSD/tools (many mirrors also have a copy of this directory). > > (Use your imagination to get the right markup.) > > How's that? I don't know, missing the tool to make disk images from DOS is a pretty bad thing IMO, any way to get this fixed? -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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