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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com>
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Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Sean Murphy <smurphy@calarts.edu>,
	Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject: Re: Is FTP install broken?
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On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 01:01:06AM -0700, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
> On 17 Apr 2007 at 17:18, Kris Kennaway boldly uttered: 
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 01:45:44PM -0700, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
> > > Re: Kris's assertion, I guess I could have lived with that if it 
> > > weren't for the fact that the installer doesn't give you any clue of 
> > > this.
> > > 
> > > Thought I was going to avoid the time to download and burn a couple 
> > > of CD's, and now it's sucked up way more of my time than making those 
> > > CD's ever would have...
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the answers/input.
> > 
> > No special casing happens for the snapshot builds, i.e. sysinstall is
> > not specially modified to disable the FTP install option.
> > 
> > It should be mentioned in the documentation; but for all I know it
> > already is :)
> > 
> > Kris
> 
> 
> Well I looked at all the docs I could find and nothing stood out. 
> 
> (BTW, there are still some other user interface errors in sysinstall, 
> ie things that lead to unexpected results, but I can't remember 
> specifics now.)

Talk to re@

Kris