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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How do I do a FTP install ?
Date: 11 Mar 1997 19:16:58 GMT
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brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers) wrote:

> [Posted and mailed (to Jordan)]

[too]

> Or call it "none" in the options menu and specify the full path
> to the top level directory (the one with the bin subdirectory).
> Same applies for NFS.
> 
> It may be worth making install try to remove this last directory
> component if it fails to mount/cd (Jordan?) :)

The CD-ROM code does this already.  It looks first in the root of the
CD, then in the subdirectory named like the distribution name.  I've
already relied on this feature when i made my snapshot for the latest
GUUG Spring Meeting CD (GUUG == German Unix Users Group), where we are
not alone on the CD.

The only flaw by now: the cdrom.inf file is only looked up in the root
of the CD, and you'll get a nasty warning if it's not found there
(although you can continue).  I've solved this by a symlink.  Maybe
the Rock Ridge impaired DOS lusers don't even see that symlink... :-)

-- 
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. ;-)