Looking for the right "FreeBSD.iso"

[Brian Whalen]

Jerry McAllister wrote:
>
> Basically, you are wrong, because you haven't looked far enough in to
> things to know that FreeBSD has done it that way from the beginning
> (or almost that far back).    I have never done a complete install from
> a CD or DVD, but just acquired the first disk, booted the install program 
> and then done the install over the net.   I've been doing that for more 
> than 10 years and am far from being an early adopter.   Others have
> done so much longer.
>
> But, some people are [still] not in the positition to be able to 
> do installs over the net.   Their service is inadequate or, in some
> cases they are not even connected, so the whole system is made available
> to them on disk as well.
>
> Actually, I believe, if you are doing just the FreeBSD install, and
> not at the same time installing some of the ports, it is still layed
> out to need only the first CD even if you are not installing over the 
> net.   But, I haven't checked recent versions.  The other CDs contain 
> the sources for various ports and some special case things.
>   
One option is to just burn and install using the minimum install option 
when the installer asks you.  You could burn the very small minimum cd, 
such as 
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/7.0/7.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso 
and then do a net install afterwards as well.  This is a very quick 
install, then you just pkg_add what you need, use sysinstall to add man 
pages and other pieces you want later.  This has been my method for at 
least 5-6 years.

Brian