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Date:      Sun, 28 Jan 1996 11:11:27 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, jeff@stat.uconn.edu, bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installation of FreeBSD-2.1 from DOS partition
Message-ID:  <199601281011.LAA01779@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <19412.822821518@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 28, 96 01:31:58 am

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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > I think it should go into c:/freebsd/dists/bin, but i don't have a DOS
> > partition to test it...

> What, root.flp?  No, most definitely not.  It should go in
c:\freebsd\floppies

Nope, not root.flp, the bin.aa ... bin.XX files.

Anyway, this guy has a weird problem.  He's always getting ``gzip -
invalid compressed data, format violated'', i.e. the files are there
and cpio starts extracting, but despite of him telling us that he's
verified that the CDROM and disk files are identically, sysinstall
doesn't read them right. :(

-- 
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. ;-)



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