From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 1 7:57: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fb02.eng00.mindspring.net (fb02.eng00.mindspring.net [207.69.229.20]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 300E53DF8 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 07:56:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from wghicks.mindspring.com (user-33qtklq.dialup.mindspring.com [199.174.210.186]) by fb02.eng00.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA08811; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 10:56:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from wghicks.mindspring.com (IDENT:jhix@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wghicks.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id HAA10757; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 07:59:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhix@wghicks.mindspring.com) Message-Id: <200002011559.HAA10757@mindspring.com> To: omitka@usa.net (OMITKA) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CD file system layout In-reply-to: Your message of "01 Feb 2000 08:36:25 MST." <20000201153625.3322.qmail@nw173.netaddress.usa.net> Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 07:59:08 -0800 From: W Gerald Hicks Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [cross-posts trimmed] > I was hoping to request a document (simple text..aloside "errata" & the > "readme"), specifying possible CD layout of FTP archives. This would greatly > help users who download the FreeBSD distribution to burn it to CD with the > correct layout, and ease the installation process. Downloading the distribution for burning CD's is hopelessly the "Wrong Way" for FreeBSD and is a shameful abuse of network bandwidth as well. Network installs work well and cvsup exists to help better manage the use of network bandwidth. If one would like to produce their own CD images locally, /usr/src/release + time + diskspace are all that one needs. -- Jerry Hicks jhix@mindspring.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message