From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 14 22:07:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA17589 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 22:07:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA17584 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 22:07:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA28410; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 22:07:30 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 22:07:30 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Thomas B. Fox" cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sysinstall prog In-Reply-To: <3.0b36.32.19961112091611.00910580@oliverdesign.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Thomas B. Fox wrote: > How come half the packages available from /stand/sysinstall are always > unavailable and cannot be fetched? Legal problems, most likely, since not all the packages are shippable on CDs and you have to have a net connection for the rest to work. It depends on what you are installing. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major