From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 12 12:25:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA29537 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 12:25:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA29531 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 12:25:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with SMTP id UAA06119 ; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 20:25:07 +0100 (BST) To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: Mikko Tyolajarvi , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: CD-ROM vs FTP Layout (Was: Intel Endeavor install problems (639K != 640K -> SIG 11)) In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 12 Apr 1996 11:52:28 PDT." Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 20:25:06 +0100 Message-ID: <6117.829337106@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Doug White wrote in message ID : > Now HOW IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CDROM LAYOUT SO WE CAN BUG THE HECK OUT OF > HIM TO FIX THIS ONCE AND FOR ALL? [intentional all caps] Jordan, but the thing is that sysinstall (at least when I worked on it, back in 2.0.5) worked no matter if it was a CDROM used over FTP or NFS, as it tried to go into the dists dir and recorded the fact that it didn't exist (if necessary) for later use... It looks like Jordan took this functionality out somewhere, possibly in trying to make ftp install more robust (which is a never ending problem :( ) Gary