Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 14:27:50 -0800 (PST) From: "K. Marsh" <durang@u.washington.edu> To: Fernando Schapachnik <fpscha@ns1.sminter.com.ar> Cc: info@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing from DOS partition (affraid to loose long names...) Message-ID: <Pine.A41.3.95b.970327142437.20822C-100000@goodall.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <199703270536.IAA26066@ns1.sminter.com.ar>
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On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, Fernando Schapachnik wrote:
> 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?
You don't!
Fortunately, the gurus named all the files in the distribution using DOS's
8/3 filenaming scheme. As for the case, no need to worry - DOS is not case
sensitive. The installation program will find all the files if you put
them in the right places. i.e.:
C:\freebsd\bin\bin.aa
C:\freebsd\bin\bin.ab
C:\freebsd\bin\bin.ac, etc.
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