From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 17 16:48:28 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F1751065670 for ; Mon, 17 May 2010 16:48:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (gate6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 121F18FC1A for ; Mon, 17 May 2010 16:48:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o4HGmKZZ013576 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 17 May 2010 17:48:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <4BF17354.5000906@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 17:48:20 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Karen Bester References: <019c01caf5c7$0f7010a0$0400000a@SmartTech.local> <01b001caf5d1$b51a2540$0400000a@SmartTech.local> In-Reply-To: <01b001caf5d1$b51a2540$0400000a@SmartTech.local> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.0 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_ADSP_ALL,SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: Reko Turja , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: download 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: Mon, 17 May 2010 16:48:28 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 17/05/2010 16:00:29, Karen Bester wrote: > I'm not sure if I will be able to download 2GB successfully, I prefer > getting the separate ISO's. I only see disk1 for 8.0, where are the rest? Disc1 is all you need to install the OS. The other disk images contain mostly precompiled 3rd party packages -- I think the reason that disk2 and disk3 got dropped was that even the size of two CD images is just a fraction of what it would take to contain most of the available ports. Rather than make an invidious choice (accompanied, no doubt, by interminable arguments and bikeshedding) about what should be included, they decided to reserve the .iso images for FreeBSD and let people download individual pkgs from the FTP sites instead. Cheers, Matthew PS. Just to make sure: you do understand that the i386 arch is for all Intel and AMD processors running in *32bit* mode? If you've got a more modern Intel Xeon or Core2 or later processor (or indeed anything AMD since about 5 years ago), then the amd64 arch will give you better results. As the name suggests, this is the *64bit* version of FreeBSD for Intel derived architectures. Take care to choose the right alternative before you put much work into building your system, as switching from one to the other is pretty painful. - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvxc1QACgkQ8Mjk52CukIyYNwCaAhrJdo55JC9QpBCqnmJ/IKYF 2RkAoJQmTueg9NkYGu58XW5Rm93wibFj =0j2o -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----