Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 12:23:25 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Instant-workstation is missing Message-ID: <20031110015325.GN77527@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20031110011722.GA3207@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <3FAE5378.1030209@iweb.net.au> <20031109163224.GA1502@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20031110004959.GD553@dds.nl> <20031110010721.GB3060@xor.obsecurity.org> <20031110011256.GH553@dds.nl> <20031110011722.GA3207@xor.obsecurity.org>
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--RNRUMt0ZF5Yaq/Aq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday, 9 November 2003 at 17:17:22 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 02:12:56AM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 05:07:21PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: >>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 01:49:59AM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote: >>>> On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 04:32:24PM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: >>>>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 01:17:20AM +1030, Andrew wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I have been trying to get FreeBSD 5.2 installed but i am unable to find >>>>>> all the packages that are required on the official cd-rom set i brought. >>>>>> i have tryed installing by FTP and i am still unable to find them >>>>>> This gouies for instant-workstation >>>>> >>>>> Hmmm... It seems you've gone astray in time. FreeBSD 5.2 has yet to >>>>> be released. See >>>>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/5-roadmap/schedule.html >>>>> >>>>> Perhaps you mean 5.1 ? >>>>> >>>>> You won't find all possible packages on the CD Rom set as there's >>>>> simply far too much stuff to fit onto the CDs. >>>> >>>> Instant-workstation is a wraparound for a couple of high used ports on a >>>> workstation. All the packages of all the ports its points to should be >>>> on the CDrom. >>> >>> Not that I could see.. >> >> I didn't very this manualy so I could be wrong. It would be a bit >> unlogicaly to not include packages that are refered to as bing a >> instant workstation, since a lot of ppl would get the idee to install >> it. > > instant-workstation is not included on cd#1. As stated, there isn't > enough space for everything. Instant-workstation itself is tiny. It consists of dependencies and a few small configuration files. It's mainly a matter of coordination with release engineering. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --RNRUMt0ZF5Yaq/Aq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/ru+VIubykFB6QiMRAqrfAJ9fGHNlbLYYW15N/NF9OMnku+ieFQCffVhl ob7qUnimpeanMbBjzzPhEiI= =FpH8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --RNRUMt0ZF5Yaq/Aq--
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