From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Aug 2 17:58: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 472EE37B6F1; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 17:57:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA95064; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 10:27:40 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 10:27:40 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Brett Glass Cc: Mike Smith , Darryl Okahata , Jay Kuri , hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron Message-ID: <20000803102740.C87263@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000802143811.0517eee0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20000802141320.046d1ca0@localhost> <200008022048.NAA01799@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <200008020116.SAA15805@mina.soco.agilent.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000801154059.04c50b80@localhost> <200008020116.SAA15805@mina.soco.agilent.com> <20000802110407.F36094@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000802140411.05180a70@localhost> <20000803094718.R36094@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000802185257.053c2920@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000802185257.053c2920@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 06:54:09PM -0600 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday, 2 August 2000 at 18:54:09 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 06:17 PM 8/2/2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> 2. There's no reason ever for a net install if you have the CD-ROM. > > Not so. The Ports Collection is always being updated, and by installing > from CD-ROM one runs the risk of missing the latest security fixes. > To avoid this, it's a good idea to install from the online version of > the Ports Collection. Read what we're saying. The system installation has nothing to do with the ports collection. Sure, sysinstall allows you to install ports, but there's nothing to stop you installing ports afterwards. We do it all the time, and we do it over the net. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message