From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 10 07:10:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8DDE16A4CE for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2004 07:10:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gldis.ca (constans.gldis.ca [66.11.169.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AB2C43D3F for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2004 07:10:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gldisater@gldis.ca) Received: from [IPv6:::1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gldis.ca (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iAA799kF088364; Wed, 10 Nov 2004 02:09:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gldisater@gldis.ca) Message-ID: <4191BF22.5020407@gldis.ca> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 02:11:30 -0500 From: Jeremy Faulkner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041108) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Loren M. Lang" References: <20041110063726.GC17938@alzatex.com> In-Reply-To: <20041110063726.GC17938@alzatex.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80rc4/561/Fri Oct 29 06:26:00 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80j on constans.gldis.ca X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: FreeBSD Mailing list Subject: Re: Purpose of FreeBSD 5.3 CDs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 07:10:49 -0000 Loren M. Lang wrote: > I'm trying to figure what all the various cd's for FreeBSD 5.3 are for. > The miniinst cd is for installing the freebsd base system, basically > everything installed with make installworld. > > disc1 is miniinst + packages + ports + src + doc? > > disc2 from past releases was just a rescue disk and a bit smaller than a > full cd. Now it's a full sized cd, but still looks like a rescue disk. > Is that all it is or does it include more packages, etc. for the > install. > > bootonly is just a boot loader, plus maybe a shell? What it's main > purpose? Sunday November 7: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=388874+0+current/freebsd-questions -- Jeremy Faulkner