From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 29 07:43:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA06020 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 07:43:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-2.mail.demon.net (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA06013 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 07:43:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by relay-2.mail.demon.net id aa18142; 29 Jun 96 15:43 +0100 Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-2.mail.demon.net id aa15122; 29 Jun 96 15:16 +0100 Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa08119; 29 Jun 96 14:59 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA03726; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 12:29:37 GMT Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 12:29:37 GMT Message-Id: <199606291229.MAA03726@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: kbranco@ma.ultranet.com CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.com In-reply-to: <2.2.32.19960628224003.006a1ab0@ma.ultranet.com> (message from Kenny on Fri, 28 Jun 1996 18:40:03 -0400) Subject: Re: Floppy Installation Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > At the mirror site: ftp5.FreeBSD.ORG in the > directory /pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE/, there are 2 directories, > > commerce/ and X86312/ the files in these directories are not set up like > > the files that are in the main bin/ directory. All the files in the dists directory are basically "tarballs", ie directory trees that have been stored in a single archive file and then compressed. Most of them have been split into smaller files to facilitate copying them to a floppy, but the ones you mention have not (no, I don't know why). > How can I make floppy > > images from these 2 directories that will work during the install? If you have access to a Unix box, you can use the 'split' command to split them up yourself. However, if you're online during the installation, the install program will pull them down for you over FTP. If not - well, they're not system-critical, so you can always FTP them down yourself afterwards and install them by hand. > The > > compat1x/ , compat20/ , and xperimnt/ directories at the same mirror > > site are set up in a similar way. Thanks!!! I don't know of a 'split' command for DOS/Windows, but I'd be surprised if there wasn't one on an archive somewhere. Alternatively, it's not too hard to write your own in something like C or Turbo Pascal, if you know enough to be able to handle files. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/