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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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