From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 17 10:40:23 2011 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 A0923106566C for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:40:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@larseighner.com) Received: from mail.team1internet.com (mail.team1internet.com [216.110.13.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82F028FC13 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:40:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from larseighner.com (unknown [216.110.13.75]) by mail.team1internet.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 85A4116B4A5; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 05:40:21 -0500 (CDT) Received: by larseighner.com (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 lars@larseighner.com; Wed, 17 Aug 2011 05:37:14 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 05:37:13 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner X-X-Sender: lars@noos.6dollardialup.com To: Rui Silva In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISO images 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: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:40:23 -0000 On Wed, 17 Aug 2011, Rui Silva wrote: > Hi, > > I want to install FreeBSD for the first time but I have some doubts regarding > the ISO images. > > I have downloaded an ISO image (FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso) via > torrent, but soon realised that the packages collection was very poor when > compared to > "ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.2-RELEASE/packages/" > > Is there any complete ISO image that includes all the packages I saw in > "ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.2-RELEASE/packages/"? That > would be really nice. Of course there is not because no media appropriate to an ISO image could contain such an ISO. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266