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At 02:48 PM 8/2/2000, Mike Smith wrote:

>> Because I want some things that wouldn't be on
>> CD-ROM. The easiest way to install everything from one
>> source is to do a net install.
>
>This is bollocks.  You can change the media during the install, not to 
>mention rebooting if you're so wrought up over the pccard issues and then 
>resuming installing afterwards.

There should be no need to do this. It should be easy and painless
to do a complete, straight-through network install.

What's more, the problems with PCMCIA cards aren't limited to network
cards. NO card will work properly by default on such a machine, either
during installation or afterward. This does not make FreeBSD look good
on portables.

--Brett



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