From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 6 20:50:42 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7066D16A4CE for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 20:50:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCCC143D2F for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 20:50:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Received: from [192.168.254.12] (g4.samsco.home [192.168.254.12]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j16KnoVO074082; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 13:49:51 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <4206831A.7020404@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 13:50:34 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Robey References: <20050206152314.A62347@april.chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: <20050206152314.A62347@april.chuckr.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on pooker.samsco.org cc: FreeBSD Hackers List Subject: Re: i86 install images X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 20:50:42 -0000 Chuck Robey wrote: > I need someone to verify for me, the disc1 image on the main > (ftp.freebsd.org) website image, I have downloaded it 3 times now, and it > keeps on reporting to me, when I try to burn it, that it's the miniinst > image. I'm capable of missing something obvious, so I am asking someone > (anyone) else to check this, please. > I assume that you're talking about 5.3-R or 4.11-R? If you think that the image might be corrupt, could you verify the MD5 checksum with what was published in the release announcement? > One item that always irks me, what's the actual name of the disk images. > There is a reticence to answer this on the website, cause they're trying > to make one answer do correct duty for all the arches, but what they've > accomplished is managing to completely miss the mark, to leave out the > main data of what's the correct actual names of the images to download. > They keep on referring to "the install disks", so I can't figure out what > the miniinst is, or the bootonly. I have a small universe to choose from, > yes, but it should be size zero. > The general scheme is: bootonly: just the kernel and sysinstall. Equivalent to the boot floppies. Only for doing network installs miniinst: kernel, sysinstall, installation distributions, perl package. The minimum you need to install FreeBSD from a single CD. disc1: kernel, sysinstall, install distributions, lots of packages. Good for installing a desktop like Gnome or KDE. disc2: kernel, sysinstall, no install distributions, live filesystem. Good for recovering broken systems. I used it for just this a few days ago myself. The iso9660 label name sometimes gets screwed up when we cut releases. We should be better about this, but it's not something that is always obvious. We are working on a new scheme that combines disc2 and miniinst and puts all packages on disc2. There will no longer be a miniinst after that, just disc1, disc2, and possbily bootonly. Scott