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Date:      Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:06:17 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>, Ken Smith <kensmith@buffalo.edu>
Subject:   Re: 7.3-BETA1 Available... [memstick.img?]
Message-ID:  <201001311506.32184.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <1264905893.19953.23.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu>
References:  <1264828108.4948.18.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <20100130164546.K46992@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <1264905893.19953.23.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu>

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On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Ken Smith wrote:
> No, no plans afoot for memsticks for the balance of the 7.X releases.
> The sysinstall support for installing from a USB based disk didn't
> get MFCed to stable/7. =C2=A0Even if it was we're already something of a
> heavyweight on images (both CDs-with-packages and DVD) so my plan all
> along had been to phase in the memstick image for stable/8 and at the
> same time drop CDs-with-packages.

=46WIW the method I used works on 7.x because sysinstall understands how=20
to read the install off a DOS device :)

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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are so many of them to choose from."
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