Water water everywhere, but not a drop to drink..

Philip J. Koenig pjklist
Mon May 17 11:49:54 PDT 2004


On 25 Jul 2003 at 10:03, Keith Morse boldly uttered: 

> On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
> 
> [snippage]
> > Now a question -- since there are 5 disks in that set and I don't 
> > particularly feel like downloading all of them, does anyone have a 
> > good idea what each contains?  In particular disk 3?
> > 
> > The docs on disk 1 don't go much into specifics, all they say is that 
> > disk 3 is full of binary and source RPMs, but it doesn't say *which* 
> > ones. (Disk 1 has a bunch also)
> > 
> > For example, I didn't see Mutt on disk 1 (unless it's in the base 
> > system), but it's not a critical package right now.  Most of the main 
> > stuff seems to be on disk 1 based on a quick perusal.
> > 
> 
> 
> Disks 1, 2, and 3 are worth getting, IIRC.  It sucks not to have that 
> third disk when the installer is about 98% done.  Been there, done that, 
> burnt the 3rd iso.


Ack, OK... thanks for the tip.  If it might call for the disk without 
warning before exiting the installer, that's all I need to know...

So what is important about disk 2?  The readme file says it's just a 
copy of part of disk 1??


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Philip J. Koenig                                       
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Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for 
the New Millenium




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