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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!demon!news.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: instdist.sh Date: 29 May 1995 12:21:57 +0100 Organization: Demon Internet News Service Lines: 16 Sender: news@news.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <3qcaol$jrg@imp.demon.co.uk> References: <9505282315.0WO7Q00@islenet.com> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: pencotts.demon.co.uk X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-URL: news:9505282315.0WO7Q00@islenet.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii dan.srebnick@islenet.com wrote: >The reason I want to do this is that I want to be able to configure my modem, >then run the script, to update the binary distribution via FTP. Suggestions, >please? Why not FTP the bindist by hand onto some local storage (DOS partition, spare directory on BSD partition, wherever) and then do an install-from-disk? This way, if anything goes wrong you don't have to start from scratch. Having got the files onto the machine, you can either run a straight install (if you put them on DOS partition, or some spare BSD partition other than your root partition), or, if you are not prepared to trash your root partition (which a full install will do), you can manually run the extract.sh script and fix up the problems that result (mainly that machine-specific stuff in /etc is overwritten, so you'd best have kept a copy before starting)