From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 8 11:15:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from epsilon.lucida.ca (epsilon.lucida.ca [209.47.215.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C74637B71D for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 11:15:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@LUCIDA.CA) Received: (qmail 2720 invoked by uid 1000); 8 Mar 2001 18:15:13 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 8 Mar 2001 18:15:13 -0000 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 13:15:10 -0500 (EST) From: Matt Heckaman To: j mckitrick Cc: Subject: Re: using stable vs clean from CD In-Reply-To: <20010308174617.B48727@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Rating: localhost 1.6.2 0/1000/N Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, j mckitrick wrote: ... : You mean from CD? Or floppy? I never tried installing with floppies and a : dialup connection because of (a) the time involved and (b) I didn't know how : well this would work with a laptop and PCMCIA cards. CD :) I grab the ISO every time it comes out. I'm on 2.5 Mb DSL though, so it's convienent for me to do so... I generally buy for every *major* release though, it depends on my cash flow at the moment. :P .. : I like that approach more and more. I can't see the advantage in NOT : doing this, unless it's some mission-critical app that *absolutely* : cannot be shut down. Yep. I'm talking about my personal workstation here, nothing mission critical about it. Otherwise it would be a very careful situation. :) * Matt Heckaman - mailto:matt@lucida.ca http://www.lucida.ca/pgp * * GPG fingerprint - 53CA 8320 C8F6 32ED 9DDF 036E 3171 C093 4AD3 1364 * -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: http://www.lucida.ca/pgp iD8DBQE6p8wxMXHAk0rTE2QRAq8FAJ93bhEiADLweB/E4tpIBTZ6Od5XSQCfWTwE 97jpjQbiaCMFLiiehVtTorQ= =TNKU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message