From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 1 21:38:00 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C09C16A41F for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 21:38:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsd@bathnetworks.com) Received: from lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk (mail.bathnetworks.com [84.92.24.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 650D243D46 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 21:37:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsd@bathnetworks.com) Received: (qmail 18671 invoked by uid 510); 1 Sep 2005 21:37:51 +0100 Received: from 84.92.24.252 by lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk (envelope-from , uid 508) with qmail-scanner-1.24-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.86.2/1032. spamassassin: 3.0.2. perlscan: 1.24-st-qms. Clear:RC:0(84.92.24.252):SA:0(-3.0/5.0):. Processed in 0.91425 secs); 01 Sep 2005 20:37:51 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=5.0 X-Antivirus-MYDOMAIN-Mail-From: bsd@bathnetworks.com via lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk X-Antivirus-MYDOMAIN: 1.24-st-qms (Clear:RC:0(84.92.24.252):SA:0(-3.0/5.0):. Processed in 0.91425 secs Process 18664) Received: from mail.bathnetworks.com (HELO ?84.92.24.252?) (bsd@bathnetworks.com@84.92.24.252) by lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk with SMTP; 1 Sep 2005 21:37:50 +0100 From: Robert Slade To: andyk In-Reply-To: <000801c5af38$578ac9f0$dc0cfea9@cr583400a> References: <000801c5af38$578ac9f0$dc0cfea9@cr583400a> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1125607069.13789.7.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 21:37:49 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: duplicate file names in iso - extraction to dos partition for dos install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 21:38:00 -0000 On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 22:01, andyk wrote: > Hi, > I searched high and low, to answer my question, now I'm hoping you can help. > > I want to do an install of 5.4 from a dos partition. as I was extracting the files from the iso/archive to the dos partition, I got a lot of seemingly duplicate names, as dos considers "mail" and "Mail" the same. > > I renamed all the duplicates with a 2 after them, but I wonder what problems I will have when I try to do the install? > > I plan to buy the cd, but wanted to try out freeBSD before buying. > > I really appreciate any help - thanks, > Andy > _______________________________________________ Andy, Installing from a Dos partition is not an option. As you found out Fbsd and unix in general does recognise file names of different cases as being different files. One point though FreeBSD is that it is Free. Why not use the CD to produce a floppy disk set and use that to do a ftp install or you could copy the CD(s). Rob