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Re: floppy installation



> I'm in the processing of downloading all of the Free BSD files from Walnut 
> Creek.  The question I have that wasn't clearly answered in the install 
> notes is: would I copy all of the tar files to a DOS partition and then the 
> install program (from floppy) would un-tar and load from there?  SInce I'm 
> not using the CD-ROM version, that'd be the only way I can see that all of 
> the files would be available to the install program.

Just duplicate the *dist structure you see in the 2.0-RELEASE directory
somewhere in your DOS partition.  It will decend into each directory at
the appropriate time and unpack the split/compressed tar files it
finds there, as well as checksumming them first..

					Jordan