From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 16 17:11:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 405F414DFC for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 17:10:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id UAA02249; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 20:10:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199903170110.UAA02249@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD3.1 and CD's In-Reply-To: from Jason Ahrens at "Mar 16, 99 06:15:02 pm" To: ahrensj@psi.ca (Jason Ahrens) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 20:10:10 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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