Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 23:40:30 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Johnson David <djohnson@acuson.com> Cc: Heiko Scheib <heiko.scheib@debitel.net>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Official 4 CDROM-Set - ISO-IMAGES lacking lot of software ??? Message-ID: <20020206234030.J5732@clan.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <20020206222024.158ED37B421@hub.freebsd.org>; from djohnson@acuson.com on Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 02:20:03PM -0800 References: <20020206214728.7520.qmail@psmtp2.dnsg.net> <20020206222024.158ED37B421@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 02:20:03PM -0800, Johnson David wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 February 2002 01:50 pm, Heiko Scheib wrote:
>
> > Now I`m suffering a serious disappointment, because the included PACKAGES
> > are only a very small part of what is shown in the packages-tree of the
> > ftp-server.
>
> There's no way the 4 CD set can contain all of the packages. There's simply
> not enough room.
>
> If you have the ISO images from -4.5, then most of the KDE stuff will be
> missing, due to an unfortunate series of miscommunications. kdelibs and
> kdebase will still be there, but the other stuff needs to be downloaded
> separately. This *may* get corrected on some distributors' sets, but it's
> still too early to know. You shouldn't have any problems with KDE on earlier
> releases. I don't know anything about XT and XP.
If you've got a DVD drive, may I recommend FreeBSD on DVD, from
http://www.freebsd-services.com/
2 DVD disks, which include all the port distfiles, and the pre-built
packages, that can legally be distributed.
N
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