Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 00:55:39 +0330 From: "Bahman M." <b.movaqar@adempiere.org> To: scubacuda@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: doing a minimal FreeBSD install Message-ID: <20071003005539.4e448281@attila> In-Reply-To: <2b7af7c40710021359j4b49499fi6675b8d122d800d5@mail.gmail.com> References: <2b7af7c40710021359j4b49499fi6675b8d122d800d5@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2007-10-02 Rogelio Bastardo wrote: > I'm looking to install only the bare essentials to FreeBSD and then > install each program piece-by-piece afterwards. > > To do this, do I just need the first FreeBSD 6 ISO? Or can I get away > with just the boot CD ISO and then install each port one-by-one? > > (Basically, I just wanna build a Nagios server, and that requires > very, very little) AFAIK, you will need at least the first ISO. That's what I exactly did with my home machine: did a minimal 6.2 installation, 'portsnap fetch', 'portsnap extract' and then ports installation. HTH Bahman
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