From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 5 15:39:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA09665 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 15:39:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from firewall.scitec.com.au (firewall-user@fgate.scitec.com.au [203.17.180.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA09612 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 15:39:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john.saunders@scitec.com.au) Received: by firewall.scitec.com.au; id JAA20859; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 09:39:06 +1000 (EST) Received: from mailhub.scitec.com.au(203.17.180.131) by fgate.scitec.com.au via smap (3.2) id xma020825; Fri, 6 Mar 98 09:38:37 +1000 Received: from hydra.scitec.com.au (hydra.scitec.com.au [203.17.182.101]) by mailhub.scitec.com.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA22533; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 09:38:34 +1000 Received: from scitec.com.au (saruman.scitec.com.au) by hydra.scitec.com.au with ESMTP (1.40.112.8/16.2) id AA276191113; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 10:38:33 +1100 Message-Id: <34FF377A.181A4B33@scitec.com.au> Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 10:38:34 +1100 From: John Saunders Organization: SCITEC LIMITED X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Withrow , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for next release References: <199803051335.IAA11684@spooky.rwwa.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Robert Withrow wrote: > I mean, I got to understand the "live file system" CD back in the > good old 2 CD days. And I always enjoy the challenge of finding > (or not finding) the unpacked source distribution. Err, exactly what _is_ the live filesystem used for? I guess it could be mounted to give all the binaries if I ever have to boot from a rescue disk. But I've been lucky so far. What exactly do you use the unpacked source distribution for? I tried using the union filesystem to mount it so I could build directly off the CD. But union is broken so I ended up having to copy the source onto a harddisk anyway. Same with the CVS repository, you can't use it on the CD and have to copy to harddisk. Also it seems faster to extract the compressed tar files from the CD than to copy the unpacked version. So I never got the point of wasting all those CDs. :) Cheers. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ . | John Saunders mailto:John.Saunders@scitec.com.au (Work) | ,--_|\ | mailto:john@nlc.net.au (Home) | / Oz \ | http://www.nlc.net.au/~john/ | \_,--\_/ | SCITEC LIMITED Phone +61 2 9428 9563 Fax +61 2 9428 9933 | v | "By the time you make ends meet, they move the ends." | +------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message