Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 11:48:36 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: David Benjamin Newcum <newcumdb@cs.purdue.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD by FTPing to my Win95 machine Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970327114752.354Q-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970318021932.4848B-100000@lore.cs.purdue.edu>
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On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, David Benjamin Newcum wrote: > > > I have no CDROM in my FreeBSD machine, so I'm installing it by accessing > > > the CDROM on my Win95 machine over the network using Serv-U ftp server. > > > > > > I can install FreeBSD and get it working, but when I try to install any of > > > the packages from the CD, it doesn't work because Win95 won't read the > > > files. The files are there, but win95 reports them as having a file size > > > of zero. I assume that the cdrom uses a format that isn't exactly the FAT > > > fs that win95 is looking for. Is there any way to read it from Win95? > > > > They should be there. Try FTPing the files over manually and then using > > the pkg_add command against them. > > The files are there. If I use DOS dir or Win95's explorer to access them, > they show up with a file size of zero. The 00_TRANS.TBL is the only file > that shows up in the packages directory with a size that is non-zero. > Windows simply will not read it as a file that has any contents. Which > means that if I use an FTP program (server or client) on the Windows > machine, it will read it as a zero length file. Wierd. That's all I can say. Something must be wrong with NT's reading of the drive. Have you tried this CD in a different computer? You'll have to FTP the packages from ftp.freebsd.org then pkg_add them. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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