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Date:      Mon, 26 Feb 1996 11:35:33 -0700 (MST)
From:      Brandon Gillespie <brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OK, so what would YOU like to see on that second CD?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960226113404.1561B-100000@tombstone.sunrem.com>
In-Reply-To: <1858.825354994@time.cdrom.com>

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On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> I'm talking about the Walnut Creek CDROM distribution, of course, and
> I'm starting to feel like my little "live CD" idea hasn't really
> turned out to be such a big hit.  Most people aren't even sure how and
> when to use it, just judging by the emails I get, and those that do
> know what it's for report that they've used it oh, maybe once.  I
> myself must confess to having used my copy of disk #2 only once, and
> that was only to rescue myself by grabbing a copy of ld.so off of it. :-)
> 
> So the question then naturally arises as to whether this second CD
> might not be more usefully populated by something else..  A Lite2
> tree?  A copy of Slackware 3.0?  The complete "naughty jpeg"
> collection from ftp.penet.fi?  Just what would you folks like to see? :-)

just do not get rid of /usr/src off CD #2, I find that to be extremely
useful as I dont have to install the entire source tree, but I can still
grab tidbits of os source when needed, and 'lndir /cdrom/usr/src 
/usr/src' is also rather handy ;)




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