Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry I started flame war

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 09:38:37 +0300, "Aggelidis Nikos" <aggelidis.news at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm sorry I started a kind of flame war.  All I wanted was two
>> things: 1.  CD's that installed without being switched in and out
>> dozens of times.  That was fixed by the suggestion of using a DVD.  I
>> didn't even know the DVD install existed, but will do that next time.
>
> I also had the same problem {cd switching} to get around it, i created
> an installation DVD with all the contents of cd1-2-3. You can find
> such guide

Hi Nikos :)

The DVD-ROM doesn't even have to be bootable.  Just collecting all the
`packages/All/*' files from the CD-ROMs in a single directory makes it
much easier to run:

    # cd /nfs/blah ; pkg_add vim*