Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 00:45:18 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: Joaquin Menchaca <linuxuser@finnovative.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What CD to use for installatoin Message-ID: <41C2807E.3020301@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <41C272A5.7000306@finnovative.net> References: <41C272A5.7000306@finnovative.net>
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Joaquin Menchaca wrote: > Hi, > > There are 4 images, and I am not sure which one to use to start out > with: bootonly, miniinst, or disc 1. > I read some FreeBSD books, the big orange* one and the brown one**, > and from both I cannot find this simple newbie answer. :-) > > thanks, > Joaquin Menchaca > > > * *FreeBSD Unleashed (2nd Edition) *by Brian Tiemann, Michael Urban > *** The Complete FreeBSD, Documentation from the Source (4th Edition)* > by Greg Lehey 5.3-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso (Boot Only, Literally) 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (Everything you need to do a full install of FreeBSD, X11 disto, popular packages) 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso (A Live CD / System Recovery, more popular packages) 5.3-RELEASE-i386-miniinst.iso (Everything you need to do a full install of FreeBSD) You want ether disc1 or miniinst. disc1 is more or less for newbies. miniinst is everything you need to setup a full install of FreeBSD (base system, full src, ports system, full docs, etc.) but It does not have the X11 disto. personally I like to download this one because the first things I do after I get FreeBSD installed is install cvsup (from ports, it'd be nice if this one package was included on this CD), cvsup new ports, configure make.conf, install the X11 distro (from ports), install portupgrade (from ports), install Links (from ports), etc.... I like to use the ports system, not packages as they get stale very quickly, so this CD has everything I need.
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