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Re: floppy installation
- To: jerryk@xxxxxxxx (Jerry Kelley)
- Subject: Re: floppy installation
- From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Dec 1994 15:10:21 -0800
- Cc: questions@xxxxxxxxxxx
- In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 30 Dec 94 08:09:38 EST." <199412301309.AA14604@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Sender: questions-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 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