Re: CD's ?

From: Tyler Gee (geekout_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/17/04

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    Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:02:17 -0700
    To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>
    
    

    I tend to install based off of the mini disc, harden the system, then
    cvsup and start pulling in and installing everything else.

    Also, I think if you are going to be installing -current, you might as
    well do the boot only disc and then do and FTP install, that way you
    are actually getting the most current -current. If you are doing a
    stable install you might want to just get disc1 and disc2

    -wtgee

    On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:45:15 -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
    <kdk@daleco.biz> wrote:
    > Moh Bana wrote:
    >
    > > Which cd is just required to install Freebsd ... i downloaded the 5.3
    > > iso's, their seems to be some confusion their 4 cd's?
    > >
    > > 2 ISO's ranging from 600mb +
    > > and one boot cd that is 20-30mb
    > >
    > >
    > > Is the freebsd with X .... that big?
    > >
    > >
    >
    > Probably not. FreeBSD without X might be 400MB+. That
    > said, it really depends on a lot of factors, since FBSD is
    > so customizable.
    >
    > Before I go on, two disclaimers. 1] newbies@ isn't
    > a place for technicalquestions, and 2] I don't use the
    > ISO's myself....
    >
    > Now, to debug those, 1] maybe your ?? isn't so technical, and
    > 2] the naming scheme of the ISO's isn't that hard.
    >
    > Bootonly is what it says. A bootable CDROM with the installer,
    > and maybe some other stuff; but you'll need to be ready to
    > grab the code from another source (like via FTP).
    >
    > "miniinst" is a CD that gets you the "minimum" installation of
    > FreeBSD; what's called "the base system". No GUI; nothing
    > that's not maintained by the Project itself. You could make
    > an SMTP server with it, an FTP server, NTP server, a shell server,
    > or ... well, you can't do much else that I can think of*, but the
    > point is, it's FreeBSD, the system is operable, and you can add
    > just about anything you want from there. The CD contains the
    > installer, the binaries and manpages, crypto, contributed (GNU
    > and other) software (including the compiler), in short, everything
    > that's maintained by the Project itself (i.e., nothing from the ports
    > tree). Also, no documentation except the aforementioned manual
    > pages.
    >
    > "Disc 1" and "Disc 2" contain enough to get you going pretty big time.
    > In addition to the "base system", you can expect full source code tree,
    > the full ports tree, and enough tarballs in /usr/ports/distfiles to build
    > X, a bunch of window managers and DE's, servers of every description,
    > a number of programming languages, system utilities, networking tools,
    > games, etc., etc.
    >
    > HTH,
    >
    > Kevin Kinsey
    > DaleCo, S.P.
    >
    > *FreeBSD maintains Sendmail, NTP, OpenSSH, and FTPD in
    > the source tree, along with a bunch of other stuff. If you know
    > much about 'Nix-like OSes, you can get going with a minimum
    > install. I don't know of anyone who uses a minimum install only ...
    > hmm, unless it's for one of the aforementioned, or a gateway,
    > or a router, or a firewall .. which I seem to have forgotten in the
    > above. In short, the reason there's 4 CD's is because there's
    > a lot of flexibility in FBSD ... and probably, the reason there
    > aren't more is because you've gotta keep things simple
    > somehow ...
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