Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:47:25 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Aggelidis Nikos" <aggelidis.news@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry I started flame war Message-ID: <873amnlaia.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <30fc78250807032338p2388be7ax56e1ae38aaafadd8@mail.gmail.com> (Aggelidis Nikos's message of "Fri, 4 Jul 2008 09:38:37 %2B0300") References: <784966050807022128g6a6ebfebtc1f57c0da66779bc@mail.gmail.com> <20080703215537.6F3114504E@ptavv.es.net> <784966050807032126m69eedb98nf0ccaed548fc96ef@mail.gmail.com> <486DA7FC.8050304@math.missouri.edu> <784966050807032138g7ed2da8chf15f185a6a6bf302@mail.gmail.com> <486DB3CB.9000906@infoweapons.com> <30fc78250807032338p2388be7ax56e1ae38aaafadd8@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 09:38:37 +0300, "Aggelidis Nikos" <aggelidis.news@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm sorry I started a kind of flame war. All I wanted was two
>> things: 1. CD's that installed without being switched in and out
>> dozens of times. That was fixed by the suggestion of using a DVD. I
>> didn't even know the DVD install existed, but will do that next time.
>
> I also had the same problem {cd switching} to get around it, i created
> an installation DVD with all the contents of cd1-2-3. You can find
> such guide
Hi Nikos :)
The DVD-ROM doesn't even have to be bootable. Just collecting all the
`packages/All/*' files from the CD-ROMs in a single directory makes it
much easier to run:
# cd /nfs/blah ; pkg_add vim*
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