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Date:      Wed, 19 May 1999 16:51:28 -0700
From:      Tomohira Tabata <ttabata@ucsd.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Makeing CD-R
Message-ID:  <37434E80.FF46CBAE@ucsd.edu>

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Dear Sirs,

Thank you for all of these suggestion. I guess these might be useful
information
enough to put into FreeBSD handbook.

> On Sun, 16 May 1999, Tomohira Tabata wrote:
> 
> > Dear Sirs,
> >
> > I downloaded the whole directory of
> > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/RELEASE-2.2.8 . I want to make a CD-R
> > from those files so that I can install freebsd via CD-ROM. But the
> > amount of those file is much larger than one CD-R can hold.

Andrew wrote:
> Just download the ISO images.
> 
>  http://ftp7.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CD-ROM-images/3.1-RELEASE/disc1.img.gz

Gunnar Flygt wrote:
> If you leave the packages directory out, I think the rest will fit on a
> CD, and at the root of the CD you should have /bin /ports etc

Doug White wrote:
> Don't copy the packages/ directory; the rest will fit fine.



-- 
Tomohira Tabata, postgraduate research engineer
ttabata@ucsd.edu, tel: 619-534-2699, fax: 619-534-2486
ECE UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0407, USA


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