From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 12 15:19:22 2008 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 6536910656DE for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:19:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 227888FC1B for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:19:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JZSjb-0004lQ-Nu for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:19:15 +0000 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:19:15 +0000 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:19:15 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:23:35 +0100 Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig775C2DEB9B831B3095AB1396" X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Sender: news Subject: Re: Installation 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: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:19:22 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig775C2DEB9B831B3095AB1396 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable dajaasge wrote: > Hi there >=20 > As a relatively inexperienced user of FreeBSD I have little input to > offer the community as a whole save to suggest that offering a DVD iso > image from which to install would save the sometimes extreme tediousnes= s > 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. As others said, most experienced people install a more-or-less barebones system and add packages over the net. Alternatively, you might try an experimental system such as http://blogs.freebsdish.org/ivoras/2008/02/11/finstall-alpha3/ . --------------enig775C2DEB9B831B3095AB1396 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH1/V3ldnAQVacBcgRAuJpAKDwOHyJEAzNaRPJnkyrd36TVt5EgACfQocU 6oXi6jlItJgNtI6O09Jx46c= =GwDF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig775C2DEB9B831B3095AB1396--