Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 23:01:50 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: daniel@electroteque.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD. Should I buy or download? Message-ID: <3FE67ABE.1070901@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <52493.203.15.102.65.1072066180.squirrel@www.electroteque.org> References: <3FE66D75.9070102@thirdfloor.fsworld.co.uk> <52493.203.15.102.65.1072066180.squirrel@www.electroteque.org>
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daniel@electroteque.org wrote: >>Hi there, >> >> Is it best to buy a boxed FreeBSD? >>or download it? >> >>Steven. >> >> >> > >Depends on your bandwidth, i stuffed the install a few times, so >downloading the ports collection a few times was really painful. > > A smart thing to do (low b/w) is skip ports via sysinstall. Perhaps even skip src via sysinstall. Get a minimal install going, use sysinstall "post config" to add the cvsup-without-gui *package*, then let it grab src and ports for you. Once you've got src, you can do the buildworld/kernel stuff and get a complete system. Took me two years to get around to thinking of it --- I'm sure others had thought of it long before, and I'd just never read about it. Made life easier last time I did a box via modem instead of broadband...cvsup can pick up where it left off most of the time. YMMV. HTH, Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.
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