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Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD by FTPing to my Win95 machine
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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