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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!news.clark.edu!henson!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!ieunet!news.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD tape install how? Date: 02 Dec 1994 20:15:41 GMT Organization: Jordan Hubbard Lines: 25 Message-ID: <JKH.94Dec2201542@whisker.hubbard.ie> References: <3bhvk2$68p@nic-nac.CSU.net> <JKH.94Nov30223322@whisker.hubbard.ie> <3bmadr$9e2@Mars.mcs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: whisker.hubbard.ie In-reply-to: mikebo@MCS.COM's message of 1 Dec 1994 23:13:31 -0600 In article <3bmadr$9e2@Mars.mcs.com> mikebo@MCS.COM (Michael Borowiec) writes: What good is putting CKSUMS and do_cksum.sh on a tape with multiple distributions? The sums are hardcoded in the script or file, and if you put all the tarballs into a single directory (so as to load them to tape all at the same time) they overwrite each other. This has been fixed, and you may now unpacked them into their own directories. Plesae bear in mind, folks, that the #1 priority of the installation floppies was, and always has been, to get the *bindist* onto your system! I appreciate that you should be able to install all the relevant *dists onto your system, and I am working towards that goal, but the initial priority was to get this working for a single distribution, and that's the bindist. Once you've got that up then it's very easy to get the rest, so I made it my single point of focus for 2.0. There's still a long way to go. Automatic installation of packages and other ancillary bits of post-configuration are priorities for 2.1. Jordan -- Jordan K. Hubbard FreeBSD core team Clams are your friends