From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 24 00:02:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA14057 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 00:02:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA14043 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 00:02:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA20303; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 18:32:06 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id SAA19353; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 18:32:05 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980324183205.54110@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 18:32:05 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Studded Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Complete FreeBSD p.237 References: <19980324103802.22923@freebie.lemis.com> <3517556A.55EF2B68@dal.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <3517556A.55EF2B68@dal.net>; from Studded on Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 10:40:42PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Mon, 23 March 1998 at 22:40:42 -0800, Studded wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: > >> The background to this was that the book was published after the 2.2.5 >> CD-ROM, and we didn't want to stick to the location that had >> (accidentally) been chosen on the 2.2.5 CD-ROM because it was >> inconvenient. > > This actually leads me to a question I meant to ask previously. Is the > 2.2.6 CD going to be bent to fit the book? Yes. If we had intended to leave things the way they were in the 2.2.5 CD-ROM, we could have changed the book to fit the CD-ROM. The problem is that everything was on /xperiment in a single tar.gz file, not what we want to confront new users with. > I think this would greatly reduce the number of -questions posts > about it. We've seen a lot of them already and I think a lot of > people are doing the same thing I am, namely waiting for 2.2.6 to > get the package deal (sorry Greg, if I could afford to pay full > price I would). No worries. If I had to pay, I'd do the same thing. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message