From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 2 21:20:18 2007 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 17E5416A421 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 21:20:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from b.movaqar@adempiere.org) Received: from kedah.mschosting.com (kedah.mschosting.com [202.75.42.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEED013C49D for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 21:20:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from b.movaqar@adempiere.org) Received: from [87.107.63.161] (port=54492 helo=attila) by kedah.mschosting.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1IcpA4-0000eS-VY; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 05:20:14 +0800 Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 00:55:39 +0330 From: "Bahman M." To: scubacuda@gmail.com Message-ID: <20071003005539.4e448281@attila> In-Reply-To: <2b7af7c40710021359j4b49499fi6675b8d122d800d5@mail.gmail.com> References: <2b7af7c40710021359j4b49499fi6675b8d122d800d5@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.0 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - kedah.mschosting.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - adempiere.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: doing a minimal FreeBSD install 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: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:20:18 -0000 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