Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 23:15:49 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: David Benjamin Newcum <newcumdb@cs.purdue.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD by FTPing to my Win95 machine Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970317231527.1602J-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970316165811.22362A-100000@lore.cs.purdue.edu>
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On Sun, 16 Mar 1997, David Benjamin Newcum wrote: > I have no CDROM in my FreeBSD machine, so I'm installing it by accessing > the CDROM on my Win95 machine over the network using Serv-U ftp server. > > (Note: I ran into a problem accessing the FTP server because I didn't > need the gateway or name server fields configured... if anyone is > trying to install using this method, you need to put 0.0.0.0 in both > of those or you'll 'Fatal signal 11 caught. I'm dead...'. It's > a bug in sysinstall.) > > I can install FreeBSD and get it working, but when I try to install any of > the packages from the CD, it doesn't work because Win95 won't read the > files. The files are there, but win95 reports them as having a file size > of zero. I assume that the cdrom uses a format that isn't exactly the FAT > fs that win95 is looking for. Is there any way to read it from Win95? They should be there. Try FTPing the files over manually and then using the pkg_add command against them. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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