From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 13 00:12:48 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA22574 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 00:12:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.oeno.com (ns.oeno.com [194.100.99.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA22562 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 00:12:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from will@ns.oeno.com) Received: (qmail 5106 invoked by uid 1001); 13 Jan 1999 08:12:10 -0000 To: "Matthew D. Fuller" Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot.flp doesn't References: <199901111058.MAA00994@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za.newsgate.clinet.fi> <867lusga6v.fsf@not.oeno.com> <19990112031009.K22809@futuresouth.com.newsgate.clinet.fi> From: Ville-Pertti Keinonen Date: 13 Jan 1999 10:11:19 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Matthew D. Fuller"'s message of "12 Jan 1999 11:30:48 +0200" Message-ID: <86k8yrbniw.fsf@not.oeno.com> Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Matthew D. Fuller" writes: > > Really? NFS is so much simpler (if it isn't an installation from > > a public server) that I would expect it to be common. > Actually, I've always found the FTP to be simpler... > Stick files on computer (or mount CD). Done. I admit, if you're willing to let your password be communicated unencrypted, then ftp is easy. Setting up an account without write privileges requires more work, even more if you don't want to give read access to just about everything on that machine. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message