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From: djm@bedford.progress.com (David McMahon)
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Hi,

I'm trying to get FREEBSD installed from my FAT C: disk.

I copied over the distributions from the ftp2 mirror site
into C:/freebsd/...

A couple of things:

1. In your instructions for preparing for an MS-DOS partition installation,
   you mention copying the "DISTS" over.  If you're getting your files
   from ftp, there is no "DISTS" label on any directory.  Within the RELEASE
   directory, there are a number of subdirectories, but it isn't readily
   apparent that those are the "DISTS" nor is it easy to tell which "DISTS"
   you need to pull down to put into C:/freebsd for your particular
   installation configuration.  If I had alot of disk space I'd just
   take it all.

2. Another suggestion would be to put the "DISTS" into single compressed
   files rather than the way you laid out the /bin directory with 40 or
   so bin.?? files and an install.sh.  Also, the tar commands in
   the install.sh are none like I've ever seen before and they don't work
   either (--unlink??).

3. I'm also getting the following error with the floppies/root.flp file:

   DEBUG: Request for floppies/root.flp from DOS
   /stand/cpio: cannot remove current : Is a directory

   gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
   /stand/cpio: premature end of file

   And the installation program message box:

   *
   Failed to load the ROOT distribution.  Please correct this problem
   and try again. (EXIT)
   *


If I'm a complete idiot and doing everything wrong, please tell me.

Thanks,
-dave