Re: suggestion for a new/additional OpenBSD release media option

2010-11-01 Thread J Sisson
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Michal wrote: > You can have CD's with multiple types of OS and you have a choice screen. > MS MSDN CD's often have different versions; server OS cd's have web, > stranded and enterprise and you just get a choice screen. But again, its all > time and effort at the

Re: suggestion for a new/additional OpenBSD release media option

2010-11-01 Thread Johan Beisser
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: >> Everytime one of you write to Theo directly, >> I feel like I'm watching gay porn. > > would someone please block this prick. it was funny to start with but now > it's intensely annoying. You could just toss his email in to your killf

Re: suggestion for a new/additional OpenBSD release media option

2010-11-01 Thread Michal
For me, the ability to boot of the install media is not a requirement. I do all my installs via pxeboot. If there were enough room on the DVD, you could also provide the CDROM ISOs. If a user REALLY needed bootable media, they could burn the ISOs to CDROMs, and do that. Again, these are only su

Re: suggestion for a new/additional OpenBSD release media option

2010-11-01 Thread Theo de Raadt
> > For me, the ability to boot of the install media is not a requirement. I do > > all my installs via pxeboot. > > > > If there were enough room on the DVD, you could also provide the CDROM ISOs. > > If a user REALLY needed bootable media, they could > > burn the ISOs to CDROMs, and do that. > >

Re: suggestion for a new/additional OpenBSD release media option

2010-10-31 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 11:05 PM, wrote: >> then this is a bad idea, and a poor use of your time. > > [... sorry your highness, didn't mean to offend ...] > >> You understand your user/customer base infinitely better >> than I do. > > [... and I'd love your infinite manhood deep up my arse ...] >

Re: suggestion for a new/additional OpenBSD release media option

2010-10-31 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
> So you want someone to maintain a Wim blacklist, and drop emails from him as > soon as they break the annoying threshold? I was merely making a point. -- Jamie Paul Griffin

Re: suggestion for a new/additional OpenBSD release media option

2010-10-31 Thread patric conant
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > Everytime one of you write to Theo directly, > > I feel like I'm watching gay porn. > > would someone please block this prick. it was funny to start with but now > it's intensely annoying. > > -- > > Jamie Paul Griffin > > So you

Re: suggestion for a new/additional OpenBSD release media option

2010-10-31 Thread Alexander Hall
On 10/31/10 23:05, bsdmas...@hushmail.com wrote: >> then this is a bad idea, and a poor use of your time. > > [... sorry your highness, didn't mean to offend ...] > >> You understand your user/customer base infinitely better >> than I do. > > [... and I'd love your infinite manhood deep up my

Re: suggestion for a new/additional OpenBSD release media option

2010-10-31 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
> Everytime one of you write to Theo directly, > I feel like I'm watching gay porn. would someone please block this prick. it was funny to start with but now it's intensely annoying. -- Jamie Paul Griffin

Re: suggestion for a new/additional OpenBSD release media option

2010-10-31 Thread bsdmaster
> then this is a bad idea, and a poor use of your time. [... sorry your highness, didn't mean to offend ...] > You understand your user/customer base infinitely better > than I do. [... and I'd love your infinite manhood deep up my arse ...] Everytime one of you write to Theo directly, I feel

Re: suggestion for a new/additional OpenBSD release media option

2010-10-31 Thread Don Jackson
>> Here is an idea for an additional release media product: >> >> DVD-ROM, including complete release and packages for i386 and amd64, and >> source > > This will be a lot more work for me to make. Understood, and maybe this is reason enough to not do this. > >> I would happily pay more for

Re: suggestion for a new/additional OpenBSD release media option

2010-10-31 Thread Theo de Raadt
> I happily and dutifully purchase each CD-ROM release. > > Many of us receive these CDs prior to the official release date. > > It is my understanding/experience that many of the binary packages are not > available on the CD, and I must wait for them to be released, and then copy > them down to

suggestion for a new/additional OpenBSD release media option

2010-10-31 Thread Don Jackson
Hello, I happily and dutifully purchase each CD-ROM release. Many of us receive these CDs prior to the official release date. It is my understanding/experience that many of the binary packages are not available on the CD, and I must wait for them to be released, and then copy them down to my loc