Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 18:47:55 -0800 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@daemonnews.org> To: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Alessandro de Manzano <adm@unixmania.net>, Ron 'The InSaNe OnE' Rosson <insane@oneinsane.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Just got 2 different 4.5 disks...... Message-ID: <20020312024755.GH55856@klapaucius.zer0.org> In-Reply-To: <20020311113632.GD2845@freebsdmall.com> References: <200203040030.LAA00492@lightning.itga.com.au> <20020303211832.I153@numachi.com> <15491.34751.990284.622815@witchblade.oneinsane.net> <20020304193050.B22862@libero.sunshine.ale> <20020311102640.GX2845@freebsdmall.com> <20020311113632.GD2845@freebsdmall.com>
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--9iyR+p8Z2cn535Lj Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2002-03-11 03:36 -0800, Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 02:26:40AM -0800, Murray Stokely wrote: > > CDs can also benefit from this. Other than that one small change, the > > discs are indeed identical. >=20 > Actually, it was just pointed out to me that this isn't the case. > Discs 3 and 4 of the Daemonnews CD set do not have RockRidge > attributes, so the files are MSDOS-compatible 8.3. >=20 > The official ISOs on the FTP site (and hence, CDs from the FreeBSD > Mall, and others) include long filenames. I'm unable to use discs 3 > and 4 from my Daemonnews distribution because of this (sysinstall can > not find the packages). In any case, I can't compare the FreeBSD Mall > CDs to DN because I'm not sure what other changes they made. I can be > sure however, that the FreeBSD Mall CDs differ from the official ISOs > on the FTP site only by the addition of Chapter 2 of the Handbook and > an autorun.inf file on disc #1 (discs 2 - 4 are completely identical, > as verified by md5). The Daemon News discs are made from the official ISOs, with no changes. However, the disc producer used a nonstandard method to make discs three and four, which resulted in the packages being named in 8.3 DOS- style filenames. Daemon News is replacing those two discs upon request from those who have purchased the set. We will not use that disc producer in the future. Greg --=20 Gregory S. Sutter The best way to accelerate Windows mailto:gsutter@daemonnews.org is at 9.8 m/s^2. hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/0x845DFEDD --9iyR+p8Z2cn535Lj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: '' iD8DBQE8jWxbIBUx1YRd/t0RAhIGAJ94UGrnq5a61+yu5aU3Uf46MEqXCQCfZRxv j5mLPlmregYiGcFu9edTL2E= =L5P2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9iyR+p8Z2cn535Lj-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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