From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 17 20:47:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA02368 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:47:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (jonny@[146.164.5.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA02356 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:47:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jonny@localhost) by gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA11329; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 00:46:17 -0300 (EST) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Message-Id: <199709180346.AAA11329@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> Subject: Re: CDROM image In-Reply-To: <199709172245.IAA00439@word.smith.net.au> from Mike Smith at "Sep 18, 97 08:15:05 am" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 00:46:17 -0300 (EST) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk #define quoting(Mike Smith) // > > They've split it into smaller files. Thank God. // > // > I don't think I'd be interested in doing this, but I might be willing // > to just put the raw images that I use up for FTP. The way I see it, // > if you're a sophisticated enough user that you're burning your own // > CDROMs, you're smart enough to use ftp reget if your connection dies // > in the middle. ;-) // // The only people I see actually finding this useful are those that are : // // - sophisticated enough to have a CD burner and some hope of driving it // - too short on resources to cut their own release // - too stupid to wait a little while and *buy* the damn disk when it // is released by WC Don't forget those with the burner, too sloppy to learn how to make release (is it really easy now ?) and living in a country with stupid import taxes and (snail) mailing system. (ME !!!) Just for the sake of my curiosity, would it work to make a symlink to /dev/rcd0c and leave the CD in drive ? // I think we could save these three guys some effort by buying them a // beer and stealing their hardware. Change beer for some cola, and we may deal. :) Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@gta.ufrj.br +55 21 290-4698 jonny@coppe.ufrj.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro UFRJ/COPPE/CISI PGP fingerprint: 29 C0 50 B9 B6 3E 58 F2 83 5F E3 26 BF 0F EA 67