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Date:      Mon, 10 Nov 2003 02:12:56 +0100
From:      Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Instant-workstation is missing
Message-ID:  <20031110011256.GH553@dds.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20031110010721.GB3060@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <3FAE5378.1030209@iweb.net.au> <20031109163224.GA1502@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20031110004959.GD553@dds.nl> <20031110010721.GB3060@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 05:07:21PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 01:49:59AM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 04:32:24PM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 01:17:20AM +1030, Andrew wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I have been trying to get FreeBSD 5.2 installed but i am unable to find 
> > > > all the packages that are required on the official cd-rom set i brought.
> > > > i have tryed installing by FTP and i am still unable to find them
> > > > This gouies for instant-workstation
> > > 
> > > Hmmm... It seems you've gone astray in time.  FreeBSD 5.2 has yet to
> > > be released.  See
> > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/5-roadmap/schedule.html
> > > 
> > > Perhaps you mean 5.1 ?
> > > 
> > > You won't find all possible packages on the CD Rom set as there's
> > > simply far too much stuff to fit onto the CDs.
> > 
> > Instant-workstation is a wraparound for a couple of high used ports on a
> > workstation. All the packages of all the ports its points to should be
> > on the CDrom.
> 
> Not that I could see..

I didn't very this manualy so I could be wrong. It would be a bit
unlogicaly to not include packages that are refered to as bing a
instant workstation, since a lot of ppl would get the idee to install
it.

-- 
Alex

Articles based on solutions that I use:
http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/



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