Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 03:51:07 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@bitbox.follo.net> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CDROM image Message-ID: <19970919035107.64712@bitbox.follo.net> In-Reply-To: <199709190129.KAA03694@word.smith.net.au>; from Mike Smith on Fri, Sep 19, 1997 at 10:59:03AM %2B0930 References: <199709182348.BAA07130@bitbox.follo.net> <199709190129.KAA03694@word.smith.net.au>
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On Fri, Sep 19, 1997 at 10:59:03AM +0930, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > Well, for me it would probably change from doing FTP installs to using > > CDs. I'm just to impatient to wait for a CD from Walnut Creek before > > installing machines, and just go with FTP installs each time. Burning > > a CD locally would be a snap if I just had the image available. > > You don't have the resources, or the inclination to cut your own? I don't have the inclination; I have the resources. Fairly easily from a pre-made release, somewhat more reluctantly from a 'make relase'. (I seldom build a release and usually have to do some harddisk cleanup to find the diskspace). The pre-cut CDs work nicely; as do an FTP install. Why would I bother? However, with a pre-made image, it is so little work that I would :) > I'd always want to mung things to suit myself. I sometimes do, but for most boxes we install here a normal release is good enough. > > Eivind, who thought that WC wouldn't want people to be able to burn > > their own CDs that easily. > > I can't see how they'd be bothered; for most people a 650MB download is > going to cost more than the CD... Most people, yeah. But I bet there are more people than me that sit on T1s or higher, where a 650MB download just cost the line being more busy in the usually idle direction for an hour or so. (I just wish I lived somewhere where bandwidth was cheaper - we pay almost as much for the 1Mb/s we get as 100Mb/s would cost in the US.) Eivind.
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