From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jan 14 06:55:25 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77B34A823F9 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 2016 06:55:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from sola.nimnet.asn.au (paqi.nimnet.asn.au [115.70.110.159]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E50CE107C for ; Thu, 14 Jan 2016 06:55:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sola.nimnet.asn.au (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id u0E6tDuU056076; Thu, 14 Jan 2016 17:55:14 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 17:55:13 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: al plant cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help with making DVD install disc In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20160114171111.C93547@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 06:55:25 -0000 In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 605, Issue 5, Message: 5 On Thu, 07 Jan 2016 10:07:09 -1000 al plant wrote: > Aloha List, Aloha Al, I noticed in the archives that this seemed unanswered .. > I need to make a .iso dvd 11 to test hardware. How do I locate a i386 > copy like below with a dvd designation instead of disc1 or has > something changed since I did this a while ago? > > FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-i386-20160106-r293245-disc1.iso > > I looked at handbook but couldnt find the how to for this. See the > dvd under releases but I want to test 11 for this email desktop > hardware. The package set on the dvds is only rolled just before release time, when the odds of it being a consistent set are at least reasonable. I guess you could use 10.2-RELEASE dvd, then upgrade system sources with svnlite or svnup, though already you need online access to do that. You _might_ even get away with replacing base.txz and kernel.txz with CURRENT ones on a re-rolled 10.2 dvd, but I wouldn't bet on it .. Even with 10.2, there's a dance to be performed to get around bugs in bsdinstall and/or bsdconfig regarding finding the packages on the dvd; the procedure required is given in the release notes. We're not where 1GB memsticks were big anymore, and there are now plenty of notebooks and tablets without optical drives; I really don't know why there isn't a (say) 4GB memstick image with what's on the dvd, and room to even add more packages .. I had a go at that for 9.3 but ran into the same issues getting pkg pointing to the local packages, before the 10.2 method was documented. Even now, not everyone is always online :) cheers, Ian