Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:51:51 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.org> To: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE Available Message-ID: <200803011151.m21Bpp9u058968@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: <47C89B18.8010803@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <1204151575.84335.3.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <1204310983.47c853c70577d@imp.free.fr> <47C89B18.8010803@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman wrote: > gregoryd.freebsd@free.fr wrote: > > >> On behalf of the FreeBSD Project thanks for your interest in FreeBSD. > >> We hope you enjoy the new release. > > > > I've just spent the whole morning installing it on my office desktop. > > > > It was an awful experience: installing packages from the three CDs kept making > > me switch from one CD to the other then to the previous one before the next one > > again... > > All in all about twenty-times !!! (sometimes just for ONE package, for Christ's > > sake !) > > It was particularly annoying, especially with those Linux guys around sneering > > when comparing it to their smooth install. > > People in the know, and those with reasonable network bandwidth, generally > use either the 'boot only' or just the 'disk 1' CDs to install a pretty > minimal system, and then install packages, run cvsup, use freebsd updates > etc. from the net. It's a whole lot smoother than juggling CDs. > > Cheers, > > Matthew [ A shame about the package disc jockey effect, & if anyone has time to fix it, great, but meantime ... ] Some of those facing a big package install sequence won't have net access (desert island effect : security firewall locked tight / high coms cost etc ) .. solution for them : Minimal install as Matthew suggested, then load all cdroms on hard disc, all packages in one directory, then run sysinstall or pkg_install from multi user base. Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSDUnixLinux C Prog Admin SysEng Consult Munich www.berklix.com Mail just Ascii plain text. HTML & Base64 is spam.
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