Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 22:13:27 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Bob Staudenmaier <bob@cloverware.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Walnut Creek CDROM Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980112220929.22079Q-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19980109183911.006e1cf4@proxy.cloverware.inc>
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On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Bob Staudenmaier wrote: > > The Walnut Creek CDROM I just purchased lists <questions@freebsd.org> as a > technical support address. My question concerns the Walnut Creek CDROM > itself, so I am hoping to obtain a contact address at Wal Creek to answer my > question. This is OK, the Walnut Creek CDROM is the official CDROM of the FreeBSD Project. Unless it's purely business-related (orders/returns/etc.), we're happy to help. > I just purchased the brand new 2.2.5 version of FreeBSD on the 4 CDROM > Walnut Creek set. Am I mistaken, or are there very few "packages" included > in the set? In other words, there are very few files located at: The packages tree is on CD 1, in packages/. Some very large packages were overflowed to CD 3. Note that the ftp site will have a few more packages than the CD due to licensing restrictions. > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/.25/FreeBSD/packages-2.2.5/All You should avoid using the explicit disk number, it changes constantly. The proper URL is ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/..... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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