Re: No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO?

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From
Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Date
20 Sep 2001 22:37:34
Subject
Re: No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO?
Message-ID
20010920223730.A82191@xor.obsecurity.org

References to
Jason Andresen, Annelise Anderson
Replies
Jordan Hubbard, Annelise Anderson
Referenced by
Jordan Hubbard, Bruce A. Mah, Alfred Perlstein, Bruce A. Mah, Alfred Perlstein, Olafur Osvaldsson, Jason Andresen, Jason Andresen, Jordan Hubbard, Bruce A. Mah, Kris Kennaway, Jim Bryant, Giorgos Keramidas, Joe Abley, Rob

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On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:00:03PM -0700, Annelise Anderson wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Jason Andresen wrote:
>
> > Is the tools directory supposed to be missing on the 4.4 CDs?
> > I downloaded the full disk 1 ISO yesterday and burned it only to
> > discover that fdimage.exe was nowhere to be found on the CD.  This is
> > not a good thing when you have to create boot floppies because your
> > BIOS refuses to acknowledge the existance of your CD-ROM.  Strangely
> > the documentation on the CD still references fdimage and the floppies
> > are still on there, I guess you are supposed to have a net connection
> > and get anything you need from the FTP site?
> >
> >
> No tools directory on the mini.iso either--so I guess you need
> to download fdimage.exe (in a common tools directory) and whatever
> else from tools you want. fips, osbsbeta, whatever.
 
I seem to recall these programs were owned by WCCDROM (then BSDi, then
WRS), and there may have been problems in putting them on the ISO now
that WRS isn't responsible for the "official ISO" creation.  If so,
the WRS CD release should probably end up containing them.
 
Kris
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