From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 27 13:20:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA23488 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 13:20:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts16-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA23399; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 13:20:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA00647; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 13:19:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 13:19:44 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Fernando Schapachnik cc: info@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing from DOS partition (affraid to loose long names...) In-Reply-To: <199703270536.IAA26066@ns1.sminter.com.ar> 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, 27 Mar 1997, Fernando Schapachnik wrote: > I have download the complete 2.1.7.1 distribution to a Unix machine at work. > I have a DOS-formatted HD and I want to put FreeBSD on it in order to > take FreeBSD home (my Intenet connection at home is slow enought to > prevent me from trying ftp installation there). > The *.TXT files instruct to create a FREEBSD directoy on > the hard drive. > How do I prevent file names for breaking at 8 characters and loosing its > case when I FTP from the Unix machine to the DOS machine? The archives are all DOS-compatible filenames. The packages are the sticky point -- in that case, note the original name, and when you copy them to the UNIX side just restore the name. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major