Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 11:41:37 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Sue Blake <sue2@welearn.com.au> Cc: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Aleksey Zvyagin <zal@rest.ru>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! Upgrade 2.2.5-RELEASE to 2.2-STABLE. Message-ID: <19980315114137.59549@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19980315115154.17811@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Sun, Mar 15, 1998 at 11:51:54AM %2B1100 References: <1159.889807711@time.cdrom.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980314110631.19126A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> <19980315105605.13538@freebie.lemis.com> <19980315115154.17811@welearn.com.au>
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On Sun, 15 March 1998 at 11:51:54 +1100, Sue Blake wrote: > On Sun, Mar 15, 1998 at 10:56:05AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> How would that help? That which we called ERRATA.TXT by any other >> name would be read as little. We had this errata about login.conf in >> the root directory of the 2.2.2 CD-ROM, but that didn't stop people >> asking all the time. > > But wasn't that the incident where the errata.txt was in error, and one had > to find the errata to the errata (on the FTP site I think it was) in order > to discover that the file had to be downloaded? Fair crack o' the whip! :-) Hmm. Yes, you're right. But not a single one of all those questions indicated that the originator had read the ERRATA.TXT file. > I do expect to be able to purchase a CD, read all of the available > documentation, and then be able to install without using the Internet. > That was not possible. In future it should at least be possible. Sure, you have the option of returning the CD-ROM for a full refund. Sometimes things get screwed up. We're all only human. > Also, I don't recall any other file warning that it was important to > read errata.txt (sorry, can't access my CD now). Scattered reminders > could help. Maybe. What would the difference be if you ended up with a file /usr/src/README? Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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