From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 11 12:03:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B2D837B401 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 12:03:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc2-cove3-6-cust88.brhm.cable.ntl.com (pc2-cove3-6-cust88.brhm.cable.ntl.com [81.107.10.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 415B143FAF for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 12:03:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ianjhart@ntlworld.com) Received: from alpha.private.lan (alpha.private.lan [192.168.0.2]) id h3BJ34rw034768; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 20:03:04 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ianjhart@ntlworld.com) From: ian j hart To: Wes Peters , Peter Jeremy , Jim Pazarena Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 20:03:04 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <20030407194038.GA18372@qcislands.net> <20030407211727.GW310@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> <200304110145.04081.wes@softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <200304110145.04081.wes@softweyr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304112003.04157.ianjhart@ntlworld.com> cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.8-Release disk3 and disk4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 19:03:24 -0000 On Friday 11 April 2003 9:45 am, Wes Peters wrote: > On Monday 07 April 2003 14:17, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > FreeBSD is no longer > > closely linked to any CD vendor and the Project has decided that the > > effort involved in integrating the ports collection into the -RELEASE > > CDs can be better utilised elsewhere. > > The funny part is, I never saw any discussion of this topic anywhere, and > I would assume if such a discussion happened I probably would've been a > part of it. Can you point me to where "the Project" made this decision? This didn't make it to the handbook either. 2.13.1 Creating an installation CDROM As part of each release, the FreeBSD project makes available five CDROM images (``ISO images''). These images can be written (``burned'') to CDs if you have a CD writer, and then used to install FreeBSD. If you have a CD writer, and bandwidth is cheap, then this is the easiest way to install FreeBSD. What exactly is "the effort involved". The packages are already built, right? -- ian j hart Quoth the raven, bite me! Salem Saberhagen (Episode LXXXI: The Phantom Menace)