From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 28 04:09:43 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12A9B1065672 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:09:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stupendoussteve@hotmail.com) Received: from bay0-omc1-s32.bay0.hotmail.com (bay0-omc1-s32.bay0.hotmail.com [65.54.246.104]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0C438FC17 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:09:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stupendoussteve@hotmail.com) Received: from hotmail.com ([207.46.10.244]) by bay0-omc1-s32.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:57:00 -0700 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:57:00 -0700 Message-ID: Received: from 207.46.10.254 by by122fd.bay122.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:56:56 GMT X-Originating-IP: [68.225.143.90] X-Originating-Email: [stupendoussteve@hotmail.com] X-Sender: stupendoussteve@hotmail.com From: "Steven Susbauer" To: jerrymc@msu.edu Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:56:56 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-OriginalArrivalTime: 28 Oct 2008 03:57:00.0534 (UTC) FILETIME=[3AE6C960:01C938B1] Cc: questions@freebsd.org, LennyCZ@eml.cc 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: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:09:43 -0000 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