From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 4 09:24:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA12183 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 09:24:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from phenry.ssd.k12.wa.us (phenry.ssd.k12.wa.us [198.104.247.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA12155 for ; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 09:24:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by phenry.ssd.k12.wa.us; Thu, 4 Apr 96 09:25:33 PST Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 09:25:33 -0800 (PST) From: Donald Alan Morrison To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: installing 2.1.0 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 recently purchased the Walnut Creek Distribution of FreeBSD v2.1.0 and found that my cdrom drive is currently unsupported. So, faithfully I decided to install the essentials by floppy for the time being; but during the install for some reason, I was not prompted for the COMPAT1X and COMPAT20 dists (even though they were marked for the install). Luckily the install went through anyways. So afterwards I mounted the COMPAT1X on fd0 and took a look at "install.sh". I took the line with the tar command and used it to extract the files manually. MY QUESTION IS, the tar program took about 2-3 seconds to unpack the files; if I copied the line from "install.sh" exactly, do you think I successfully installed the files? (I'm running on a pentium 100 with 16 megs edo dram and a 512KB pipeline burst cache, so I'm not sure if it could have unpacked the files THAT fast or not.) What could I do to check this? And if I reenter the /stand/sysinstall program, how can I continue the install of other files without "fdisking" my existing setup? Also, should my cdrom drive stay unsupported, what would be the best way to get EVERYTHING installed? (No way am I copying both cds to floppy!:) Thanks a lot dmorison@phenry.ssd.k12.wa.us