Re: CD's ?
From: Tyler Gee (geekout_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/17/04
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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:02:53 -0700 To: Moh Bana <moh_bana@hotmail.com>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
I have never downloaded from a BitTorrent so I am not sure how that
would change things. I wouldn't inherently trust it because that
means it is not coming from an official source and someone could
basically be planting a security hole in your distribution that you
would never find.
-wtgee
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:54:59 +0000, Moh Bana <moh_bana@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> How do i check if the dowloaded files are not corrupt .... Theirs a file
> called
> CHECKSUM.MD5 how i verify this with Wndows.
>
> Thanks alot. If i downloaded the files from Bit torrent would the checksums
> be different thus causing an error? e.g i donwloaded Disc1 from FTP server
> and 2 from Bit torrent.
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Tyler Gee <geekout@gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Tyler Gee <geekout@gmail.com>
> To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>
> CC: Moh Bana <moh_bana@hotmail.com>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: CD's ?
> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:02:17 -0700
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> 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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