From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 15 11:05:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA27580 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 11:05:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA27574 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 11:05:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA01067; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 11:05:13 -0700 (PDT) To: Jon Mah cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.5 installation does not work. In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 15 Jul 1996 13:59:39 EDT." <199607151759.NAA23592@eggbeater.cs.rpi.edu> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 11:05:13 -0700 Message-ID: <1064.837453913@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [Edited down to questions - please don't spam 3 major lists with identical postings :-( I should have trimmed the cc line myself in my last reply. ] This, unfortunately, won't work without some major surgery to your distribution tree. The info files which describe how many pieces are in each distribution used to be in the root floppy, but are now part of the distributions themselves. This fundamental change in assumptions would break the 2.1R installer, and the only way I can see actually making it work would be to move the 2.1R root.flp image into the 2.1.5R floppies directory, unpack it someplace (it's a cpio file), and then update everything in stand/info/* to match the layout of the 2.1.5R distribution, packaging it back into a root.flp image again. Jordan > Jordan: > > This is an idea I was hypothesizing about, since > I know that the 2.0/2.1 FTP installs have worked fine for me, > would it be possible to use a boot disk from 2.0 (or 2.1) and > change the release to be retrieved to "2.1.5-RELEASE". > ... or does that sound like too simple of a workaround? ;> > Thanks. > > Jon Mah > (jamah@cs.rpi.edu) >