From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 6 13:28:37 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D717F16A4DA for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 13:28:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB52943D53 for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 13:28:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DJAVn-00056f-L0 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 15:24:03 +0200 Received: from dsl092-076-225.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.76.225]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 15:24:03 +0200 Received: from jdarnold by dsl092-076-225.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 15:24:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jonathan Arnold Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 09:23:03 -0400 Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <42528039.1010708@tiscali.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl092-076-225.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050202 MultiZilla/1.7.0.2d X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ja In-Reply-To: <42528039.1010708@tiscali.co.uk> Sender: news Subject: Re: .iso X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 13:28:38 -0000 bertybadboy wrote: > Which .iso files do i download and burn onto a cd? I was all set with a big explanation of what the ISOs were, and to complain that there wasn't a nice, easy to find, concise description in the handbook, when I actually looked for it and found it with no problem. The place to start, of course, when installing FreeBSD is Chapter Two in the handbook, entitled, appropriately enough, "Installing FreeBSD": http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html As part of section 2.2, "Pre-installation Tasks", there is section 2.2.6 "Obtain the FreeBSD Installation Files". And it points you to section 2.13 "Preparing Your Own Installation Media": http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-diff-media.html And that has an excellent and concise description of the ISO files. The gist of that is you should download the -miniinst version (not the -mini version as described in the handbook) if you have a fast internet connection and want to install the packages online, or the -disc1 version if you want to have a CD with it prepackage. The biggest advantage to using the miniinst version is that you are sure to get the latest version of the package, while the -disc1 version is what was available when the ISO was created. Hope this helps. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/