FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE Available

[Chris H.]

Quoting Ken Smith <kensmith at cse.Buffalo.EDU>:

>
> On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 19:18 -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>> Another approach might be to make one cd the "desktop install" cd,
>> including all of the apps commonly used to install the desktop (xorg, kde,
>> gnome, etc.)
>
> This is already in place, as best I can.  X.org is on disc1 (on purpose
> since it's something you can select in the "Distributions" section
> before even getting to the "Do you want to browse packages?" menu),
> while Gnome and KDE are both on disc2.  If you select "All" in the
> distributions section it will install X.org during the initial install
> phase.  If you then install only KDE and/or Gnome it will only ask for
> disc2 once you get past the package selection.  The combination of KDE
> and Gnome basically fill even the newer 700Mb target media sizes so for
> it to get any better sysinstall needs to be made smarter.
>
>> It does seem to me that some work in this area would pay dividends.
>
> I am definitely not arguing that point, lots can be done here.

If you ask me, kernel developer &| server install should be on
disc1, and desktop^*$ should go on disc99.

FreeBSD
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--Chris H

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