From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 24 18:10:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA14203 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 18:10:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA14119 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 18:10:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@n4hhe.ampr.org) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt1-245.HiWAAY.net [208.147.147.245]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA04726 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 20:09:33 -0500 (CDT) Received: from n4hhe.ampr.org (localhost.ampr.org [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA03352 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 19:48:31 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@n4hhe.ampr.org) Message-Id: <199807250048.TAA03352@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: iso images In-reply-to: Message from Craig Yap of "Fri, 24 Jul 1998 10:40:07 EDT." <199807241440.KAA23887@trout.cse.fau.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 19:48:30 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Craig Yap writes: > Someone told me today that Debian Linux creates ISO images for their > distributions. Is it possible to also have this done for FreeBSD? This woul > d > make it much easier for people like me who have CD-Rs at work and a poor > slow connection at home. Install /usr/ports/sysutils/cdrecord. Its mkisofs may be more current than the one in /usr/ports/sysutils/mkisofs. In any case you'll need cdrecord to move the image to CD-R. While the 4-CD set is handy, I usually prefer a single home made custom CD with The Things I Want. Upgraded from a 2G to 9G HD so I'd have enough room for a local CVS copy and to be able to "cd /usr/src; make buildworld && ( cd release; make release )" -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message