From: jwinstea@jarthur.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) Subject: Re: What is on the rootimage disk (FAQ?) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1992 05:46:45 GMT
In article <sand.709947977@milton> sand@milton.u.washington.edu (Derek Upham) writes:
>I'll be getting my 386 box and V.32bis modem (yes!) next week, and the
>bootimage and rootimage disks are ready and waiting for them. My
>question: is Kermit (or something) on the root floppy, so I can begin
>downloading stuff from my FTP machines? Failing that, is the mtools
>package (or something) on the root floppy, so I can copy the Kermit
>binary from a DOS disk?
Both kermit and mtools are not on the 0.95a root disk, and it is
doubtful they will be on 0.96 root disk - however, (before everyone
starts to howl) they will both be on the 0.96 supplemental disk, along
with a good number of other packages which haven't been firmly decided
on yet. I'm trying to get the 0.96 root out the door before I worry
about it too much.
>Are there any FMs with the information? I couldn't find any. It
>seems like a good thing to put on the FAQ sheet.
I will produce a listing of the root and supplemental disks and upload
them with the images. This seems like a very handy thing, but *should
not* be part of the FAQ, IMHO. To do so would just burden the FAQ
maintainer into keeping that up to date, and unnecessarily bloat the
FAQ. If it's available seperately, there is no need to put more than
a pointer to it on the FAQ.
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