From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 27 03:08:01 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 31F2516A4B3 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 03:08:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (ns0.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3970D43F93 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 03:07:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) h9RB7lDK013439 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:07:53 GMT (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)id h9RB7l9N013438; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:07:47 GMT (envelope-from matthew) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:07:47 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman To: ops yop Message-ID: <20031027110747.GA11587@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , ops yop , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.60 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a quesions 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: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:08:01 -0000 --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 12:12:05AM +0000, ops yop wrote: > Im one of the FreeBSD user and am so happy with with ur OS ,, but i > have a quesuion ,, i heard that there is an OS of FreeBSD has 56 CDs > ,, i mean a FreeBSD for Server consists of 56 CDs ,,, is that right ?? =20 I don't know where you heard that, but it is completely wrong. 56 CDs worth, at 650Mb per CD comes out at about 35Gb. You can fit a FreeBSD system onto a less than 1Gb drive, although a 3 or 4Gb disk is about the minimum you would want to use if you want all the system sources, the ports tree, a reasonable number of ported applications and some space left over to actually work with. 35Gb sounds to me roughly like what it would take to build an archive of all of the distfiles of all of the ports in the tree, or maybe all of the precompiled packages built out of those sources for all contemporary versions of FreeBSD available -- ie. the amount of disk space required to host a mirror of the ftp.freebsd.org site. If anyone attempted to make such a thing available on CD -- first, they'd be crazy to try and sell it on CD Rom: DVD would be a much better idea nowadays, and -- secondly: it would be out of date before they could get the disks pressed, let alone sell them. Much better to just download the files as needed from the Internet. Cheers, Matthew=09 --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/nPyDdtESqEQa7a0RAqyoAJwLAV3YZpR3k0NAMxolJ2/Z0RWEuACglr+o 7LXiBIYj4eglNGXuKsY8XQw= =RvIT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J--