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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!news.jsums.edu!gatech!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How do I install from CDROM over LAN? Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 10:45:40 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 11 Message-ID: <31408054.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> References: <313B1B32.2F1CF0FB@kampai.euronet.nl> <313D0611.15FB7483@FreeBSD.org> <MATHEZER.96Mar6112643@feisal.newera.ab.ca> <313F82A4.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> <4hpg42$lkm@daily-planet.execpc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Jeff Kane <jkane@earth.execpc.com> Jeff Kane wrote: > But, the ports are not!! I ran into that problem. The NFS server I am > using does not understand Rock Ridge ( I know, change it!) and it will Ah, well, there's only so much name smashing we're willing to do and the #1 goal of 8.3 name mangling for us was simply to get the user installed. More than that would probably be a waste of effort since most machines *do* support RockRidge. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project