From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 17 00:35:41 2005 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 B7A2616A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:35:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [216.201.118.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2071943D48 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:35:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CAA960E8; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:35:40 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 68104-01; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:35:36 -0600 (CST) Received: from [216.201.118.138] (racerx.makeworld.com [216.201.118.138]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C87B60D8; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:35:35 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <4238D0E3.9000002@makeworld.com> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:35:47 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050313) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bnonn References: <4238CF9B.9050905@orcon.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <4238CF9B.9050905@orcon.net.nz> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: racerx@makeworld.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:35:41 -0000 Bnonn wrote: > Actually, I wouldn't mind knowing the answer to this either. What is > CD2 for? I've never had occasion to use it. > Jonathan Farrugia wrote: > > Hi, My Name is Jonathan Farrugia and In Just Downloaded FreeBSD > v5.3 from the following server: > [1]"ftp://ftp2.ru.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/5.3/" > and i downloaded disc1 and disc2, > and then i got confused cause the name of disc1 was "fbsd_miniinst" > and the name of disc2 was "fbsd_livefs". can you explain me what to > insert first to install the FreeBSD operating system on an > unpartitioned harddisk and what the other is for. thank you. > Best Regards, > Jonathan Farrugia. Think of CD #2 (LiveFS) as a means of a rescue disk. You boot into the livefs, then you can mount your FBSD system and repair it etc. -- Best regards, Chris A stagnant science is at a standstill.