Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 08:48:17 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Rat@User.ITconsult.co.uk (Roland Blampied) Subject: Re: FreeBSD CD-ROM Message-ID: <19970319084817.YH28047@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <00224513301730@user.itconsult.co.uk>; from Roland Blampied on Mar 19, 1997 00:19:07 -0000 References: <00224513301730@user.itconsult.co.uk>
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As Roland Blampied wrote: > Being a bit of a newbie to all this, I was wondering if it is possible to > re-create the FreeBSD CD from files freely available for FTP download. > If it is possible, I just need to know what the Root of the CD will > contain, and where to get those files. The official FreeBSD CD-ROM is copyright by Walnut Creek CD-ROM, naturally, since they're doing the compilation of that medium. If all you need however is an installation CD-ROM, it's as simple as getting the files from your closest FreeBSD mirror. The base directory of a release should look like: /usr/release/R/ftp: ABOUT.TXT compat1x/ dict/ HARDWARE.TXT proflibs/ bin/ compat20/ doc/ info/ README.TXT catpages/ compat21/ floppies/ INSTALL.TXT RELNOTES.TXT cdrom.inf des/ games/ manpages/ src/ Copy all of this to a CD. Don't forget the cdrom.inf file. Don't fetch the des/ directory from a US mirror, you know they'll get problems if you do this. Pick one of the international mirrors if you think you need DES or Kerberos (like ftp.de.freebsd.org, or ftp.internat.freebsd.org). It depends on your needs whether you're also going to put ports and/or packages there. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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