From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 4 15:24:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA15392 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 15:24:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA15375 for ; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 15:24:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA02167; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 15:24:46 -0800 Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 15:24:46 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Donald Alan Morrison cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: installing 2.1.0 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, Donald Alan Morrison wrote: > 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; :( Ugly. > 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). That's strange. > 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? Most likely, if the line looked something like this: tar xzf - | cat compat1x.* Try replacing the 'x' in the command with a 't' and see what directory the files landed in. They should be in /compat1x and /compat20, respectively. (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.) It probably did. the package is pretty tiny. > 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!:) Check the directories. If you really want to run sysinstall again (not the best of ideas, but that isup for debate), then don't go through the install - jump directly to the post install screen, which I believe is an option on the main menu. you can do it all manually though. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major