Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:45:29 +0000 From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation Message-ID: <200803120945.30038.jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <op.t7v4onzfeuvaz5@athlon2000> References: <op.t7v4onzfeuvaz5@athlon2000>
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On Wednesday 12 March 2008, dajaasge wrote: > As a relatively inexperienced user of FreeBSD I have little input to offer > =A0 the community as a whole save to suggest that offering a DVD iso image > from which to install would save the sometimes extreme tediousness of disc > swapping when adding packages. If I knew more about it I would make such = an > image myself, however, having never had to do it before it is something I > will have to pen in for a later time. Creating a DVD from the official FreeBSD CD isos (disc[1-3]) is quite=20 straightforward. Take a look at the instructions on=20 <http://www.pa.msu.edu/~tigner/bsddvd.html>. It describes creating a DVD fr= om=20 a 2 CD set but the process is the same for 3, just include an extra step to= =20 mount and copy disc3 in the same way as he describes disc2, then continue=20 with the instructions for disc2 and disc1 in that order. =2D-=20 Mike Clarke
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