From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 6 15:15:53 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 1C8E216A4CE for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 15:15:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpauth04.mail.atl.earthlink.net (smtpauth04.mail.atl.earthlink.net [209.86.89.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A669043D3F for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 15:15:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rpratt1950@earthlink.net) Received: from [65.41.159.229] (helo=kt.weeble.com) by smtpauth04.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DJCFz-0004yV-S4; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 11:15:52 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=simple; s=test1; d=earthlink.net; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-Id:In-Reply-To:References:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=WYP5GLnwSB1WT9x5tax0eJ60s1uNEyE7rV1LmgUc+WIZ3NF7JKpsVMXaMzibpBPB; Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 11:15:50 -0400 From: Randy Pratt To: Jonathan Arnold Message-Id: <20050406111550.25396502.rpratt1950@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: References: <42528039.1010708@tiscali.co.uk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.11) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: 96132b9c1759af1df21c5f5255d6c174239a348a220c2609659e5ad965f6d1cb19d8b528cd9dcead3ca473d225a0f487350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 65.41.159.229 cc: bertybadboy cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 15:15:53 -0000 On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 09:23:03 -0400 Jonathan Arnold wrote: > 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. The original poster didn't say which version he wanted to install but I would presume its something very recent. I think that information is good for anything prior to 5.4 but it seems to be changing somewhat starting with the 5.4-RC1. From the announcement ( http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20050405144935.GA54439 ): "The layout of the installation CDs is slightly different than previous releases. The disc1 image should be used to start the install. It contains a "live filesystem" and the set of packages that normally get installed as part of a minimal install (perl, the baseline Xorg windowing system, and on i386 the base Linux emulation package). The disc2 image contains a larger variety of packages (kde3, gnome2, etc) that can be installed while doing the initial installation of the machine, but if you just want to do a minimal install disc1 should be all you need." I gather that the miniinst.iso won't be available as a separate iso since its essentially now -disc1. I like the idea of a base install and live filesystem on the same disc. However, it appears that someone wanting to do a fresh install with KDE/Gnome/etc will now need to download both -disc1 and -disc2. Its more to download but the selection of packages on the CDs is probably larger. If I am misreading the announcement I'm sure someone will correct me. Hope this helps more than confuses! Randy --