From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 29 15:04:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA18567 for current-outgoing; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 15:04:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unb15.campus.unal.edu.co ([200.21.26.240]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA18114 Mon, 29 Apr 1996 14:54:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from pedro@localhost) by unb15.campus.unal.edu.co (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA05480; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 16:48:46 -0500 Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 16:48:45 -0500 (EST) From: "Pedro Giffuni S." To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Gary Palmer , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: MH mail: part II (Final Reply) In-Reply-To: <28117.830802987@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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