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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!nsw1.news.telstra.net!sa.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!biosci!parc!fenner From: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FBSD Future... Date: 14 Oct 1996 22:44:02 GMT Organization: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Lines: 13 Message-ID: <53ufni$l6j@news.parc.xerox.com> References: <Dz37x9.7vC@news2.new-york.net> <Dz67yE.8I7@interactive.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: crevenia.parc.xerox.com In article <Dz67yE.8I7@interactive.net>, Chris Mauritz <ritz@interactive.net> wrote: >Do an FTP install. If you've got a reasonably fat pipe to the >net, it's rather painless. I did a full install of 2.2-current >over our T3 the other day and it only took about 15-20 mins. :-) We installed 2.1.5 on my roommate's home machine the other day, and we did it via FTP install off my CD. (his machine didn't have a CD). He was complaining that his install at work went much faster since he's T3 all the way to ftp.freebsd.org and wcarchive's disks are much faster than my CDRom drive =) Bill