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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.uio.no!uninett.no!sn.no!vgs.sn.no!usenet From: Niklas Saers <niklass@vgs.sn.no> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FreeBSD 2.1.7.1-CD-ROM writing Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 10:56:05 -0700 Organization: Ewox Lines: 26 Message-ID: <33493535.1E02@vgs.sn.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: pe039.persbraten.vgs.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38634 Okidok... I want to burn a CD-ROM with FreeBSD 2.1.7.1. This is because there are so many people around here who want to go over to Unix, and since Linux is their only option availble, they buy the CD and install it. That goes FAST. Having to buy a FreeBSD CD-ROM takes ages (I live in Norway, and believe me, I've tried. Took me about two weeks to get the FreeBSD 2.1.5 CD-ROMs) and since I've got such a nice, fast access to the net, I wanted to burn one for them which they could install from. But I've got some problems: I believe I should write in normal ISO9660, with 8+3 filenames, right? Then, how should I convert files like bin.mtree and make the CD see the difference between checksum.md5 (which does not exist) and CHECKSUM.MD5? And about the packages, should I include any other directories than All? How do I fix this, with All, upper case first letter and two lower-case letters?? And worse, how should I convert 9-menu-1.4.tgz into an 8+3 character-mode? Is there an actual FreeBSD 2.1.7.1 CD-ROM availble around at any server which I just can mirror down, or the files with these conversions?? Sorry to be such a pain in the ass, but hey, that's a part of learning, right? :) Yours Niklas J. Saers Beren of Ewox