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From: tporczyk@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk)
Subject: Re: BSD CD-ROM : Walnet Creek or Infomagic ?
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References: <3e8t0q$gnp@vishnu.jussieu.fr> <1995Jan3.002220.531@robkaos.ruhr.de>
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 1995 20:15:30 GMT
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robsch@robkaos.ruhr.de (Robert Schien) writes:

>The only part the InfoMagic CD is missing seems to be the souce code
>of XFree86. All other parts (ports and packages) seem to be identical.
>But: the Infomagic has the X11R6 (Xconsortium) tar files.
>Plus: InfoMagic has the binaries and souces for NetBSD for i386, mac68k,
>amiga and sparc platforms. Plus: usenet articles of the comp.386bsd.* groups.
>BTW: the InfoMagic CD is almost full (689 MB), whereas the Walnut Creek
>contains only 417 MB (it's one  of the smallest WC CDs I ever had).
>I'm happy to answer further questions you may have.

What about installation procedures?  Are they identical from both
CDs?  Have you installed from both?  I'm very interested in buying *BSD
CD soon, but I don't want to be unpleasantly surprised afterwards...

t.
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