From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 25 03:59:42 2003 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 DCB8C37B401 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 03:59:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C408D43FCB for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 03:59:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id h3PAxPn28405; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 13:59:25 +0300 Message-Id: <200304251059.h3PAxPn28405@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from INFO/SpoolDir by raad.tartu.ee (Mercury 1.48); 25 Apr 03 13:59:23 +0300 Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 25 Apr 03 13:00:17 +0300 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: Kevin Stevens , questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 13:00:12 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal References: <000001c30af1$3cd69dc0$9dadaa18@earthlink.net> In-reply-to: <7478352E-76E5-11D7-B4D1-000A959CEE6A@pursued-with.net> X-Error-Diagnostic: 03/04/25 13:02, 451 4.7.1 ... Please try again later X-Retry: 2 X-Error-Diagnostic: 03/04/25 13:30, 451 4.7.1 ... Please try again later Subject: Re: FreeBSD's ISO ReadMe? 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: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 10:59:43 -0000 > From: Kevin Stevens > 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? > 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. The Mini-ISO is for more than just booting into FTP install. Actually it contains everything that disk1 contains except the packages. And who needs packages anyway, given the ports tree and decent Internet connection :-) -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * MCSE - Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert