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Date:      Wed, 17 Aug 2011 05:37:13 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Lars Eighner <luvbeastie@larseighner.com>
To:        Rui Silva <rsilva.pt@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ISO images
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1108170532370.2915@abbf.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz>
In-Reply-To: <EB1B12E0-3D3B-4008-881B-BC33047B87B9@gmail.com>
References:  <EB1B12E0-3D3B-4008-881B-BC33047B87B9@gmail.com>

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On Wed, 17 Aug 2011, Rui Silva wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to install FreeBSD for the first time but I have some doubts regarding 
> the ISO images.
>
> I have downloaded an ISO image (FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso) via 
> torrent, but soon realised that the packages collection was very poor when 
> compared to 
> "ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.2-RELEASE/packages/"
>
> Is there any complete ISO image that includes all the packages I saw in 
> "ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.2-RELEASE/packages/"? That 
> would be really nice.

Of course there is not because no media appropriate to an ISO image could
contain such an ISO.

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Lars Eighner
http://www.larseighner.com/index.html
8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266




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