From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 27 18:15:37 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10F811065672 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:15:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brian@brianwhalen.net) Received: from numail.brianwhalen.net (numail.brianwhalen.net [66.93.34.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3FC38FC24 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:15:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brian@brianwhalen.net) Received: by numail.brianwhalen.net (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 4B13A2847E; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:56:08 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on numail.brianwhalen.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (numail.brianwhalen.net [192.168.15.25]) by numail.brianwhalen.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE55628431 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:56:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <490600B5.90601@brianwhalen.net> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:56:05 -0700 From: Brian Whalen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20081027161419.GG98028@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20081027161419.GG98028@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Looking for the right "FreeBSD.iso" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:15:37 -0000 Jerry McAllister wrote: > > Basically, you are wrong, because you haven't looked far enough in to > things to know that FreeBSD has done it that way from the beginning > (or almost that far back). I have never done a complete install from > a CD or DVD, but just acquired the first disk, booted the install program > and then done the install over the net. I've been doing that for more > than 10 years and am far from being an early adopter. Others have > done so much longer. > > But, some people are [still] not in the positition to be able to > do installs over the net. Their service is inadequate or, in some > cases they are not even connected, so the whole system is made available > to them on disk as well. > > Actually, I believe, if you are doing just the FreeBSD install, and > not at the same time installing some of the ports, it is still layed > out to need only the first CD even if you are not installing over the > net. But, I haven't checked recent versions. The other CDs contain > the sources for various ports and some special case things. > One option is to just burn and install using the minimum install option when the installer asks you. You could burn the very small minimum cd, such as ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/7.0/7.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso and then do a net install afterwards as well. This is a very quick install, then you just pkg_add what you need, use sysinstall to add man pages and other pieces you want later. This has been my method for at least 5-6 years. Brian