From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 28 04:16:06 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECC971065679 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:16:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.64]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 928DA8FC0C for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:16:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.19]) by QMTA07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id XykM1a0230QuhwU574FnAL; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:15:47 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Y4G41a0092P6wsM3N4G5jF; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:16:05 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=eRxeISc1rmgA:10 a=Jh77GqAbcSgA:10 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=TLv5vPd2yXcRRldAZE4A:9 a=gOoFRpRAQ-7rc0T88PEA:7 a=onw6ojqQ5-tA69qb7xhlYPr9R7cA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8990EC9419; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:16:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:16:04 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Steven Susbauer Message-ID: <20081028041604.GA38993@icarus.home.lan> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: jerrymc@msu.edu, questions@freebsd.org, LennyCZ@eml.cc Subject: Re: Looking for the right "FreeBSD.iso" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:16:07 -0000 On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 09:56:56PM -0600, Steven Susbauer wrote: > Jerry McAllister wrote: >>> Maybe I am wrong, but I feel it shouldn't be necessary to waste >>> 3 CDs >>> from installation if I have a high-speed permanent Internet >>> connection. >>> So >>> wouldn't just 1 DVD-RW do? >> >> Basically, you are wrong, because you haven't looked far enough in to >> things to know that FreeBSD has done it that way from the beginning >> (or almost that far back). I have never done a complete install from >> a CD or DVD, but just acquired the first disk, booted the install >> program and then done the install over the net. I've been doing that >> for more than 10 years and am far from being an early adopter. Others >> have >> done so much longer. >> >> But, some people are [still] not in the positition to be able to do >> installs over the net. Their service is inadequate or, in some >> cases they are not even connected, so the whole system is made available >> to them on disk as well. >> >> Actually, I believe, if you are doing just the FreeBSD install, and >> not at the same time installing some of the ports, it is still layed >> out to need only the first CD even if you are not installing over the >> net. But, I haven't checked recent versions. The other CDs contain >> the sources for various ports and some special case things. >> >> ////jerry >> > This is still the behavior. You can install any of the base > distributions for that release with only disc 1, as well as some of the > ports. I have had issues booting the netinstall cds for some reason, and > installing the distribution from the cd goes faster anyway. Just make sure that if you choose "src" or "ports", that you properly "adopt" your src and ports trees. (This is why I often advocate not installing src/ports from CD/DVD/FTP/whatever, and instead using csup once the box is up and working). -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |