CD's ?

[Tyler Gee]

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 at 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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