From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 27 16:49:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7399A37B401 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 16:49:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [12.15.124.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD7D043FDD for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 16:49:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from chcgil2-ar7-4-46-244-103.chcgil2.dsl-verizon.net (racerx@chcgil2-ar7-4-46-244-103.chcgil2.dsl-verizon.net [4.46.244.103]) by makeworld.com (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h5RNnMuI089560; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 18:49:23 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) From: Chris To: Robert Storey , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 18:48:39 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <20030628065749.7aa58e83.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> In-Reply-To: <20030628065749.7aa58e83.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306271848.39980.racerx@makeworld.com> Subject: Re: 4-CD set X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 23:49:27 -0000 On Friday 27 June 2003 05:57 pm, Robert Storey wrote: > I've noticed that the FreeBSD 4-CD set is now available for 5.1-RELEASE > from FreeBSDmall.com for $40. I'm willing to order it and support the > cause, but nowhere have I been able to find out just what is on the > additional two CDs. Is it the ports collection, or source code, or > something else? If anyone has previously purchased a 4-CD set, I'd be > interested to hear what advantage it offers over the downloadable 2-CD > set. It is the ports collection. The advantage is simply this - when you /stand/sysinstall and want to add more ports etc, it reads off of the last 2 CD's and installes them - opposed to the cd /usr/ports/(somedir) make install clean which downloads them off the net. well worth the investment if bandwith is an issue > > TIA, > Robert > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Best regards, Chris ______________________________________________________________________ PGP Fingerprint = D976 2575 D0B4 E4B0 45CC AA09 0F93 FF80 C01B C363 PGP Mail encouraged / preferred - keys available on common key servers ______________________________________________________________________ 01010010011000010110001101100101011100100101100000000000