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Date:      Fri, 11 Apr 2003 20:03:04 +0100
From:      ian j hart <ianjhart@ntlworld.com>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>, Jim Pazarena <paz@qcislands.net>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.8-Release disk3 and disk4
Message-ID:  <200304112003.04157.ianjhart@ntlworld.com>
In-Reply-To: <200304110145.04081.wes@softweyr.com>
References:  <20030407194038.GA18372@qcislands.net> <20030407211727.GW310@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> <200304110145.04081.wes@softweyr.com>

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On Friday 11 April 2003 9:45 am, Wes Peters wrote:
> On Monday 07 April 2003 14:17, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> > FreeBSD is no longer
> > closely linked to any CD vendor and the Project has decided that the
> > effort involved in integrating the ports collection into the -RELEASE
> > CDs can be better utilised elsewhere.
>
> The funny part is, I never saw any discussion of this topic anywhere, and
> I would assume if such a discussion happened I probably would've been a
> part of it.  Can you point me to where "the Project" made this decision?

This didn't make it to the handbook either.

<quote>
2.13.1 Creating an installation CDROM


As part of each release, the FreeBSD project makes available five CDROM images 
(``ISO images''). These images can be written (``burned'') to CDs if you have 
a CD writer, and then used to install FreeBSD. If you have a CD writer, and 
bandwidth is cheap, then this is the easiest way to install FreeBSD.
</quote>

What exactly is "the effort involved". The packages are already built, right?

-- 
ian j hart

Quoth the raven, bite me!
	Salem Saberhagen (Episode LXXXI: The Phantom Menace)



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