From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 1 08:22:20 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 B83AE16A4CE for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2003 08:22:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from tungsten.btinternet.com (tungsten.btinternet.com [194.73.73.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E496E43FAF for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2003 08:22:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nicolai@btinternet.com) Received: from host81-132-44-250.in-addr.btopenworld.com ([81.132.44.250] helo=missinglink1) by tungsten.btinternet.com with smtp (Exim 3.22 #23) id 1AFyW2-0003OG-00 for FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 01 Nov 2003 16:22:18 +0000 Message-ID: <01ff01c3a094$968fb430$fa2c8451@missinglink1> From: "Nicolai P Guba" To: References: <482006602.1067548846966.JavaMail.root@localhost> Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 16:24:13 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: Re: Just curious, how large is FreeBSD? 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, 01 Nov 2003 16:22:20 -0000 Welcome! > though. Every time I installed ALL, the installation froze after about 30 minutes. I tried this about 8 times > and realized that every time it froze on the exact same place. I eventually came to the conclusion that ALL > could Ahem, why bother installing ALL esp for the first-time? I would get a basic system running first, then adding packages selectively via sysinstall. I very much doubt that you would need all the language dependend packages etc... etc... Alternatively, try going for the X-User or so pre-defined sets... Happy Hacking