From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 27 17:47:06 2003 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 F3C8A37B401 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 17:47:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-104-32.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.104.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1857F44003 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 17:47:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70A7366BE5; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 17:47:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5CB77BB3; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 17:47:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 17:47:02 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Chris Message-ID: <20030628004702.GC55502@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030628065749.7aa58e83.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> <200306271848.39980.racerx@makeworld.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="6zdv2QT/q3FMhpsV" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200306271848.39980.racerx@makeworld.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Robert Storey Subject: Re: 4-CD set 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: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 00:47:06 -0000 --6zdv2QT/q3FMhpsV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 06:48:39PM -0500, Chris wrote: > On Friday 27 June 2003 05:57 pm, Robert Storey wrote: > > I've noticed that the FreeBSD 4-CD set is now available for 5.1-RELEASE > > from FreeBSDmall.com for $40. I'm willing to order it and support the > > cause, but nowhere have I been able to find out just what is on the > > additional two CDs. Is it the ports collection, or source code, or > > something else? If anyone has previously purchased a 4-CD set, I'd be > > interested to hear what advantage it offers over the downloadable 2-CD > > set. >=20 > It is the ports collection. The advantage is simply this - when you=20 > /stand/sysinstall and want to add more ports etc, it reads off of the las= t 2=20 > CD's and installes them - opposed to the cd /usr/ports/(somedir) make ins= tall=20 > clean=20 > which downloads them off the net. The ports collection is on disc 1. The extra discs are: A live filesystem CD that can be booted and used for repair purposes, Two CDs of commonly-used packages. The entire package collection takes up about 6 GB (for i386 5.1), which would take about 9 CDs to ship in its entirety. Kris --6zdv2QT/q3FMhpsV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+/OWFWry0BWjoQKURAjKeAKCpXjOk+H5CpgAkVttvaFRLj4JI/gCg+LTG wigR+nPu25IuBlOfNZFMRAI= =ks4n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6zdv2QT/q3FMhpsV--