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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!blackbush.xlink.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Download question Date: 3 Jan 1996 22:03:02 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4ceuem$kpg@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4c2qon$sjr@shellx.best.com> <4c3i8l$139@uriah.heep.sax.de> <30E5E93F.41C67EA6@lcs.mit.edu> <4ccmvu$dld@selene.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 moritz@math.uni-duesseldorf.de (Moritz D. Klingholz) writes: > I installed FreeBSD 2.1 from the net some days ago and can't remember > having seen any file name (package names, ok, but not file names). > I just picked some installation without source from the install menu > (including X) and several packages from the post-install menu. It's more a problem for people who have to fetch the files prior to installing the system. (Or even more ugly: for people who must install from floppies.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)