Hey, James Strother, if i'm on the same wavelength with you on this, god
knows how many times my pc almost made it out the window with this swapping
thingy. don't know if this helps a bit at this point to at least save some
energy.
Well _last _ thing first --- i finally downloaded the dvd, which
On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 07:06:03AM -0400, Randy Pratt wrote:
On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 10:22:37 +0100
Mike Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 07 September 2008, James Strother wrote:
That said, I still think that as long as the freebsd foundation
distributes CD images it would be
Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 07:06:03AM -0400, Randy Pratt wrote:
On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 10:22:37 +0100
Mike Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 07 September 2008, James Strother wrote:
That said, I still think that as long as the freebsd foundation
distributes CD
I had actually avoided the base system because I was installing FreeBSD on a
system with a poor internet connection, but I was able to download the discs
on a system with a high speed connection. The DVD would have worked fine,
but it was not available from the freebsd home page and so I did not
They might not be as haphazard as you suggest. ISTR once reading that
the CDs were arranged with the most popular packages on the first CD so
that you would only need to download disk 2 (and 3) if you wanted some
of the less common packages. With your suggested layout it's quite
likely that a
On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 10:22:37 +0100
Mike Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 07 September 2008, James Strother wrote:
That said, I still think that as long as the freebsd foundation
distributes CD images it would be worthwhile to make them as
effective as possible. Actually, even if
On Sunday 07 September 2008, James Strother wrote:
That said, I still think that as long as the freebsd foundation
distributes CD images it would be worthwhile to make them as
effective as possible. Actually, even if the install were moved to a
DVD, the ordered install I proposed would still
On Sunday 07 September 2008, Randy Pratt wrote:
There is another discussion:
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?1220762797.29265.43.camel
which would address the disk swapping by removing all the packages
from disc1 and providing a DVD of packages that could be used
after installation.
All this talk about changing the order of the ports on the install cd's is
just so much hot air because cd's install media belong to the legacy world.
They are fast becoming obsolete just like floppy drives are. Can't even buy
a computer these days with a floppy drive and still FreeBSD distributes
James Strother wrote:
I just completed an install of FreeBSD 7.0 and couldn't help but wonder why
it was necessary for me to switch discs back and forth so much while
installing ported applications. I've used FreeBSD on and off for a number
of years and this issue has always irked me a just a
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