Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 12:53:47 -0800 From: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@bitfreak.org> To: "Roland Giesler" <roland@thegreentree.org> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Obtaining the full 4 CDs? Message-ID: <20031115125347.71686d35.dmp@bitfreak.org> In-Reply-To: <NFEBLNMJLPMABJMOEINDEECFCIAA.roland@thegreentree.org> References: <aa0d4725c679453f9bae609bc08310e2.me@prestoncrawford.com> <NFEBLNMJLPMABJMOEINDEECFCIAA.roland@thegreentree.org>
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On 2003.11.15 21:15:10 +0200, "Roland Giesler" <roland@thegreentree.org> wrote: > Maybe someone can explain how to actually use the three additional > CD's in the set, since I've installed FreeBSD a number of times now, > with the full ports collection and quite a number of the other > distributions, but I've never needed the extra CD's? I alos don't > find anything in the manuals re this or maybe I'm using the wrong > terms in my search? Disc 2 is bootable and contains a live filesystem--a copy of the base distribution. In sysinstall, choose FixIt, and you'll get a dialog with four options, the CDROM/DVD option lets you mount the disc and use the programs on it. This gets you access to fdisk, fsck, disklabel, and all the file manipulation tools you typically need repair a system. This is useful for stuff like removing a forgotten root password when you've set the console to insecure, using fdisk to examine and fix a system disk that won't boot, or locate that backup copy of the GENERIC kernel so you can boot the machine to single user, fix your broken custom kernel config and rebuild. The remaining space on disc 2 and all of discs 3 and 4 contain additional packages. You can use sysinstall to install them after the initial install by running sysinstall again, choose Configure, Packages, CD/DVD. You can also use pkg_add. A lot of work has gone into determining the set of packages people are most likely to want to install initially, so most of what you'd want from packages is on disc 1. The only package I've found missing from disc 1 is the non-X build of cvsup, cvsup-without-gui. The packages contain fully-compiled programs, not source code, and are specific to the version of FreeBSD on the CDs. It's possible for them to work on other versions, but it's a Really Bad Idea to do so. The version-specific nature of packages includes the security branches. For example, a package for 4.8-RELEASE isn't safe even for use on 4.8-RELEASE-p1. Hope this helps.
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