From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 11 14:07:23 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 C51D016A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:07:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8624743D39 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:07:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:07:48 -0600 Message-ID: <4050E318.9050106@daleco.biz> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:07:20 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040212 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: DeAtH KnIgHt References: <20040311214044.14735.qmail@web60604.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040311214044.14735.qmail@web60604.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Mar 2004 22:07:48.0906 (UTC) FILETIME=[4A3AD0A0:01C407B5] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need Info? 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: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 22:07:23 -0000 DeAtH KnIgHt wrote: >Hi, > >Ive noticed that there are different iso images within the ftp servers and >i need to know which one do i actually need within these ftp servers? >is there a difference between these different files? how do i install freebsd? > > > Generally for each RELEASE, there is a "mini" ISO, and a multiple disc set that includes enough stuff to get up with X and about a zillion ports. (Well, OK, that's an exaggeration, but....) I don't know much about the "bootonly" ISO. If you want to set up a bunch of Desktop machines with 5.2.1, for example, and have bandwidth to burn, the 2 CD set would do it. The "mini" CD should be enough to get going at the CLI; perhaps you'd say a "skeleton" install: /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /, /stand, /etc, /var, and the crypto and contrib* parts of the base distrubution. No docs, no source code, no ports tree. Just a classic Unix-like environment, from which you can, with a 'Net connection, build whatever you want (just about....) As for me, I've never dl'ed an ISO; I just grab "two freshly formatted floppies and these instructions" as noted on the index page of www.freebsd.org, used /stand/sysinstall to install cvsup-no-gui as a package, and then cvsup'd /usr/src, /usr/ports, and do the buildworld/kernel cycle and then build ports. Some people prefer to use packages instead .... HTH, Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. *Yeah, I probably left something out, but hey, why overwhelm anybody? :-)