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Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 16:13:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Robert Chalmers <robert@nanguo.chalmers.com.au>
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Subject: Re: using sysinstall, post install
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On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Robert Chalmers wrote:

> Is there some reason that sysinstall doesn't recoginse the CD once the 
> system is up and running?

Because you shouldn't use sysinstall after the system is up.  I don't know
why that was put in the default /motd; it's completely wrong.  Run
pkg_manage instead, or use pkg_add, pkg_delete, and so forth.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major