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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 18:44:45 -0800
From: Paul Traina <pst@Shockwave.COM>
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Subject: NFS binary distribution != FTP distribution
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>Number:         800
>Category:       conf
>Synopsis:       NFS binary distribution != FTP distribution
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    jkh
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Oct 29 18:50:00 PST 1995
>Closed-Date:    Tue Nov 7 21:15:41 PST 1995
>Last-Modified:  Tue Nov  7 21:25:26 PST 1995
>Originator:     Paul Traina
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.1.0-951026-SNAP
>Organization:
Shockwave Engineering
>Environment:

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-951026-SNAP/

>Description:

I pulled down the FTP distribution as-is from wcarchive, as I had some
machines I wanted to install locally via NFS and some via FTP.

The FTP installations look at the "right files" and do the "right thing."

The NFS installation was looking for ".tgz" files, which I assume I could
have merely generated by going to each sub-directory and catting together
all of the files into a single .tgz file.

Further research shows that the ftp installation will look for the .tgz
file, fail and load the .aa files, so one distribution could cover both,
but it would be nice if the NFS distribtuion did the same thing so you
could use a direct mirror of the ftp distribution as installation media.

>How-To-Repeat:

mount wcarchive over NFS and try to install from it

>Fix:
	
I believe the installation program should be able to handle installing
from either a single .tgz or a bunch of files that need to be catted
together (ala FTP installation).  I think this is a useful enhancement
and it might even be reasonable to put this into the 2.1.0 sysinstall.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->jkh 
Responsible-Changed-By: pst 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Oct 29 18:53:14 PST 1995 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Jordan's baby. 

Jordan's note:  This should already be possible, and it worked when
I tested it.  The code that assembles pieces sits "one level up" from
the strategy routines that actually get the pieces, so in that respect
the NFS and FTP installations are identical.
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: jkh 
State-Changed-When: Tue Nov 7 21:15:41 PST 1995 
State-Changed-Why:  
The feature already exists. 
>Unformatted:
