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On Thursday, Apr 24, 2003, at 22:04 US/Pacific, William C. Testermann 
wrote:

> I am seriously considering switching my Slackware gateway, and 
> workstation over to FreeBSD... I've been wanting to try it for a long 
> time... I want to test it on this computer I have and want to know 
> what all ISO's
>  I should make? there is 4 iso's and a mini, my assumption is at least 
> two of these are source; however I'm not sure... any one got a clue?

This is documented somewhere; I believe the Installation portion of the 
Handbook.  Anyway, you need disk1 if you're going to do a base install 
from CD, or you can use mini to boot from CD and install via FTP.  
Everything else is source and packages etc.

KeS