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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Download question
Date: 3 Jan 1996 22:03:02 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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moritz@math.uni-duesseldorf.de (Moritz D. Klingholz) writes:

> I installed FreeBSD 2.1 from the net some days ago and can't remember
> having seen any file name (package names, ok, but not file names).
> I just picked some installation without source from the install menu
> (including X) and several packages from the post-install menu.

It's more a problem for people who have to fetch the files prior to
installing the system.  (Or even more ugly: for people who must
install from floppies.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)