Re: FreeBSD bootable floppy Script NOT WORKING

2002-10-22 Thread Terry Cooper
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 7:36 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD bootable floppy Script NOT WORKING > > > > John Bleichert wrote: > > > > *snip* > > > > > * EOM is not a command, it's an end-of-text marker, si

Re: FreeBSD bootable floppy Script NOT WORKING

2002-10-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > John Bleichert wrote: > > *snip* > > > * EOM is not a command, it's an end-of-text marker, similar to the one > > used in Perl. > > > > * There are text-file incompatibilities between Unix and DOS. If you're > > copying/pasting the file from the website in Windows, ftp'ing it to a Unix >

Re: FreeBSD bootable floppy Script NOT WORKING

2002-10-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:28:22AM +0200, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: > perl -i.bak -npe 's/\r\n/\n/g' Pedant point of the day. Be careful of combining the -n and -p flags on the perl command line, as they mean contradictory things. '-n' is loop over all the lines of the input *without* pri

Re: FreeBSD bootable floppy Script NOT WORKING

2002-10-21 Thread Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg
John Bleichert wrote: *snip* * EOM is not a command, it's an end-of-text marker, similar to the one used in Perl. * There are text-file incompatibilities between Unix and DOS. If you're copying/pasting the file from the website in Windows, ftp'ing it to a Unix box and then trying to run it,

Re: FreeBSD bootable floppy Script NOT WORKING

2002-10-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Ok, I'm frustrated out. Do people actually use this script because the only > one I find is the the one referenced from freebsd.org. > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backup-basics.html > #AEN14848 > > I cut and paste this script into a file in windows and then di

Re: FreeBSD bootable floppy Script NOT WORKING

2002-10-21 Thread John Bleichert
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Terry Cooper wrote: > Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:22:31 -0700 > From: Terry Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: FreeBSD bootable floppy Script NOT WORKING > > Ok, I'm frustrated out. Do people actually use this script bec

Re: FreeBSD bootable floppy Script NOT WORKING

2002-10-21 Thread John Bleichert
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Terry Cooper wrote: > Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:22:31 -0700 > From: Terry Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: FreeBSD bootable floppy Script NOT WORKING > > Ok, I'm frustrated out. Do people actually use this script bec