Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 20:10:10 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: ahrensj@psi.ca (Jason Ahrens) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD3.1 and CD's Message-ID: <199903170110.UAA02249@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9903161812001.22137-100000@cougar.psi.ca> from Jason Ahrens at "Mar 16, 99 06:15:02 pm"
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Jason Ahrens wrote, > AT the request of a friend, I have mirrored the FreeBSD 3.1 from > ftp.cdrom.com. I am now attepmtping to figure out how to place this on CD > to give to him to use. > > The full download was 1.1GB, with 900MB in the packages directory. There > are 1749 packages in the All directory, with softlinks from all the other > directories. I tried splitting up the directories and maintaining all > dependencies, and ended up with 1.6GB of data, and still not low enough to > burn onto two CD's. (a 1GB disk and a 640MB disk, 500MB more than before > and no better off) > > My question then is, how does one get these onto CD so that a CD-install > is possible? The Walnut Creek CDROMs are a set of _four_ (4) CDs. If you want to cut it down, none of the packages are required for an operational system. The full contents of the 'RELEASE-3.1' with no symlinks followed except for XFree86 is, IIRC, ~250 MB. That should be enough to start with... but some packages and ports (emacs, pine/elm, a window manager or two) are almost required for most people's tastes. Problem is to figure out which ones are needed by your friend. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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