5.4, switching disks during install...

Tony Shadwick tshadwick at goinet.com
Sat May 14 08:22:41 PDT 2005


It did this to me as well. :\

On Tue, 10 May 2005, Bill Schoolcraft wrote:

> Hello Family,
>
> Was installing 5.4 and decided to pick some packages from the
> sysinstall menu and found myself being prompted every 2 or 3
> packages to take out disk-1 to install disk-2 then take out
> disk-1 and install disk-2 etc....
>
> Yes, I've installed ports and will work off that now.
>
> In hindsight it would be nice to have all your selected packages
> taken from disk-1 "then" insert disk-2, then your done.
>
> After 19 disk changes I just stopped, now in /usr/ports..
>
> I was wondering if I missed something.
>
> Thanks
>
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