From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 27 06:31:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA21997 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 06:31:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu (Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA21989 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 06:31:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jfieber@localhost) by fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA04470; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 09:31:27 -0500 Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 09:31:24 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber X-Sender: jfieber@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu To: Jerry Kendall cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OK, so what would YOU like to see on that second CD? In-Reply-To: <96Feb26.131751est.20481-2@janus.border.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Jerry Kendall wrote: > FWIW: I think the 'live' CD is great... Just gzip all the files that > are there so that I(and others) can get a files instead of having > to completely reinstall some package... This is a pain when I will > not install over an existing installed package... No! Not compressed! Then I can't use stuff directly off the CD! If it is compressed, it ISN'T a "live" CD anymore. As for other alternates, I think a CVS tree would be Mega Nifty. The mailing list archives (uncompressed) take up about 150meg at the moment. I can definately see some utility in including them. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ============