From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 13 16:53:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA01115 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 16:22:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06829 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 15:32:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA22567; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 22:13:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 22:13:27 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Bob Staudenmaier cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Walnut Creek CDROM In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19980109183911.006e1cf4@proxy.cloverware.inc> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Bob Staudenmaier wrote: > > The Walnut Creek CDROM I just purchased lists as a > technical support address. My question concerns the Walnut Creek CDROM > itself, so I am hoping to obtain a contact address at Wal Creek to answer my > question. This is OK, the Walnut Creek CDROM is the official CDROM of the FreeBSD Project. Unless it's purely business-related (orders/returns/etc.), we're happy to help. > I just purchased the brand new 2.2.5 version of FreeBSD on the 4 CDROM > Walnut Creek set. Am I mistaken, or are there very few "packages" included > in the set? In other words, there are very few files located at: The packages tree is on CD 1, in packages/. Some very large packages were overflowed to CD 3. Note that the ftp site will have a few more packages than the CD due to licensing restrictions. > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/.25/FreeBSD/packages-2.2.5/All You should avoid using the explicit disk number, it changes constantly. The proper URL is ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/..... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major