From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 17 17:02:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 752CB16A4CE for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:02:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10EE643D41 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:02:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from geekout@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id b11so937997rne for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:02:18 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=DfjOlR6eKsHJMxO0HCCt0vC+LbZjmFGe63vsWLY5monywp+fxemNI1punPWnHLrNKCXvsvrhklxq45RWZN+5S8gUIIxZVg0G8Rn3p7sHajBxD1fImnTL0YCm70WCqns/HEQioPverGzzWMQLbDgA70my8Gn8Bn5rjFe7kQSCCQs= Received: by 10.38.81.30 with SMTP id e30mr576350rnb; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:02:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.72.54 with HTTP; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:02:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <6e01203b04111709026b1f1ad@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:02:17 -0700 From: Tyler Gee To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." In-Reply-To: <419B801B.8060003@daleco.biz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <419B801B.8060003@daleco.biz> cc: Moh Bana cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CD's ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Tyler Gee List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:02:19 -0000 I tend to install based off of the mini disc, harden the system, then cvsup and start pulling in and installing everything else. Also, I think if you are going to be installing -current, you might as well do the boot only disc and then do and FTP install, that way you are actually getting the most current -current. If you are doing a stable install you might want to just get disc1 and disc2 -wtgee On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:45:15 -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > Moh Bana wrote: > > > Which cd is just required to install Freebsd ... i downloaded the 5.3 > > iso's, their seems to be some confusion their 4 cd's? > > > > 2 ISO's ranging from 600mb + > > and one boot cd that is 20-30mb > > > > > > Is the freebsd with X .... that big? > > > > > > Probably not. FreeBSD without X might be 400MB+. That > said, it really depends on a lot of factors, since FBSD is > so customizable. > > Before I go on, two disclaimers. 1] newbies@ isn't > a place for technicalquestions, and 2] I don't use the > ISO's myself.... > > Now, to debug those, 1] maybe your ?? isn't so technical, and > 2] the naming scheme of the ISO's isn't that hard. > > Bootonly is what it says. A bootable CDROM with the installer, > and maybe some other stuff; but you'll need to be ready to > grab the code from another source (like via FTP). > > "miniinst" is a CD that gets you the "minimum" installation of > FreeBSD; what's called "the base system". No GUI; nothing > that's not maintained by the Project itself. You could make > an SMTP server with it, an FTP server, NTP server, a shell server, > or ... well, you can't do much else that I can think of*, but the > point is, it's FreeBSD, the system is operable, and you can add > just about anything you want from there. The CD contains the > installer, the binaries and manpages, crypto, contributed (GNU > and other) software (including the compiler), in short, everything > that's maintained by the Project itself (i.e., nothing from the ports > tree). Also, no documentation except the aforementioned manual > pages. > > "Disc 1" and "Disc 2" contain enough to get you going pretty big time. > In addition to the "base system", you can expect full source code tree, > the full ports tree, and enough tarballs in /usr/ports/distfiles to build > X, a bunch of window managers and DE's, servers of every description, > a number of programming languages, system utilities, networking tools, > games, etc., etc. > > HTH, > > Kevin Kinsey > DaleCo, S.P. > > *FreeBSD maintains Sendmail, NTP, OpenSSH, and FTPD in > the source tree, along with a bunch of other stuff. If you know > much about 'Nix-like OSes, you can get going with a minimum > install. I don't know of anyone who uses a minimum install only ... > hmm, unless it's for one of the aforementioned, or a gateway, > or a router, or a firewall .. which I seem to have forgotten in the > above. In short, the reason there's 4 CD's is because there's > a lot of flexibility in FBSD ... and probably, the reason there > aren't more is because you've gotta keep things simple > somehow ... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >