Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 16:48:45 -0500 (EST) From: "Pedro Giffuni S." <pedro@unb15.campus.unal.edu.co> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.org>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: MH mail: part II (Final Reply) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960429164308.5421C-100000@unb15.campus.unal.edu.co> In-Reply-To: <28117.830802987@time.cdrom.com>
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On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Umm. It worked several times from the 2.1R CDROM for me, at least. It > > won't (and can't) work from a DOS partition as the names are truncated > > (Thanks, Microsoft), and I don't think anyone ever thought of doing > > Correct. I have a small script which someone donated for correcting > the package names using the INDEX - I'll include it in the utils > directory of the next CDROM. > > > packages over NFS ... if I remember right it's ``undefined'' what will > > happen in this case. Jordan may correct me however. > > Installing packages over NFS works just fine - it's just like fetching > them from the local filesystem as far as the package installer is > concerned. Same goes for tape. > Name sizes are not the only thing we must thank microsoft for... when copying from CD to hard disk, for a DOS installation, the resulting copies are not exactly equal (I compared them !). I recommend using the /v flag when copying... but there`s no warranty that will be the final answer. Other two guys I know had the same problem, very nasty DOS bug. regards, Pedro
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