From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 14 17:12:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA12429 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 17:12:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA12420; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 17:12:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA05698; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 11:41:38 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id LAA20103; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 11:41:37 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980315114137.59549@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 11:41:37 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Sue Blake Cc: Annelise Anderson , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Aleksey Zvyagin , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! Upgrade 2.2.5-RELEASE to 2.2-STABLE. References: <1159.889807711@time.cdrom.com> <19980315105605.13538@freebie.lemis.com> <19980315115154.17811@welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <19980315115154.17811@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Sun, Mar 15, 1998 at 11:51:54AM +1100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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