From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 9 23:33:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BB4016A4CE for ; Tue, 9 Nov 2004 23:33:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (mail.soaustin.net [207.200.4.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1374643D1D for ; Tue, 9 Nov 2004 23:33:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id BDAE9148DD; Tue, 9 Nov 2004 17:33:02 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 17:33:02 -0600 (CST) From: Mark Linimon X-X-Sender: linimon@pancho To: Toxa In-Reply-To: <20041109205638.GA40396@laptoxa.toxa.lan> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:57:43 +0000 cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CD images X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 23:33:03 -0000 On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Toxa wrote: > On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 11:03:54AM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > > > > > > Is it forever or just temporary? They were nice for setting up machines > > > without broadband net access. > > Just FYI, some other BSDs even does not provide any bootable ISO images at > all... So 2 full size CDs with suitable amount of packages or one miniinst CD (which is all I > usually need) is more than OK... Well, the best option for the original poster is probably one of our CD distributors, e.g., http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html section A.1.2. I'm surprised that no one has mentioned that yet. mcl