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Date:      Sat, 6 Jun 1998 13:47:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@nvl.virginia.edu>
To:        Paul Dekkers <P.Dekkers@phys.uu.nl>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why so many CD's, and what for my own CD?
Message-ID:  <Pine.HPP.3.96.980606134232.28029D-100000@huron.nvl.virginia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199806061058.MAA28385@ruunat.fys.ruu.nl>

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On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Paul Dekkers wrote:

> My problem is that I want to make my own CD, and now I don't know exactly
> what I sould do. Of course I can put all things that are on cd1 on my CD,
> but I don't have the ports do I? (However there was a file called
> ports.tgz, and I remembered I could install all ports in a directory
> during the installation of my 2.2.1 FreeBSD...)
> 
> Of course I want everything on one CD, and that don't fits, but what do
> you suggest me? If it's really worth I can make 2 CD's, however I still
> have to download everything :-) (I want to install it on more than one
> machine, so I think it's worth making a CD... And everywhere I want
> sendmail and gnuplot, so I really need the ports... :-) (they aren't in
> the basic system are they?)

	Just grab base distribution and then add the ports/packages as you
need them.  The only reason there are ports on the 4th CD is because they
spilled over fro the first one.

	If you are mastering your own CD, you can leave off the packages
you do not need, and fill the space with other stuff like gnuplot.  

> By the way; what filesystem do I have to make the CD? ISO, or RockRidge?
> And do you think that is possible on a win95 machine? (The CD writer is on
> a win95 machine, can't change that.)

	I think basic ISO 9660 should be good enough for the distribution
files and the packages.  The ports distfiles do have their orginal long
names however, and would require RockRidge extensions.  Keep in mind that
the basic system can be installed from a DOS partition, so everything
should have a 8.3 safe name. 

	Adrian
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