From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 15 14:51:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA19650 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 14:51:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA19621; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 14:51:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA06648; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 23:51:10 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA10296; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 23:51:04 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id XAA18074; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 23:50:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607152150.XAA18074@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 2.1.5 installation does not work. To: jamah@cs.rpi.edu (Jon Mah) Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 23:50:06 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, jamah@cs.rpi.edu, questions@FreeBSD.org, bugs@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199607151759.NAA23592@eggbeater.cs.rpi.edu> from Jon Mah at "Jul 15, 96 01:59:39 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jon Mah wrote: > 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". Alas, this won't work. 2.0.5 and 2.1 used to have this mysterious ``root floppy'' which has been eliminated now. The crucial part is the the `inf' files used to live on just that floppy, but are now scattered through the dist directories. (They contain the information about the number of files to load, size, and checksum.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)