Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:56:56 -0600 From: "Steven Susbauer" <stupendoussteve@hotmail.com> To: jerrymc@msu.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org, LennyCZ@eml.cc Subject: Re: Looking for the right "FreeBSD.iso" Message-ID: <BAY122-F3682D1C00793DA77EDD3DFBA270@phx.gbl>
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Jerry McAllister wrote: >> Maybe I am wrong, but I feel it shouldn't be necessary to waste 3 >>CDs >> from installation if I have a high-speed permanent Internet >>connection. >>So >>wouldn't just 1 DVD-RW do? > >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. > >////jerry > This is still the behavior. You can install any of the base distributions for that release with only disc 1, as well as some of the ports. I have had issues booting the netinstall cds for some reason, and installing the distribution from the cd goes faster anyway. -Steve
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