Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 21:37:49 +0100 From: Robert Slade <bsd@bathnetworks.com> To: andyk <andyk@rogers.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: duplicate file names in iso - extraction to dos partition for dos install Message-ID: <1125607069.13789.7.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <000801c5af38$578ac9f0$dc0cfea9@cr583400a> References: <000801c5af38$578ac9f0$dc0cfea9@cr583400a>
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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
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