Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:55:14 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Lars Eighner <luvbeastie@larseighner.com> Cc: Rui Silva <rsilva.pt@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISO images Message-ID: <201108171255.p7HCtEYU025850@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Wed, 17 Aug 2011 05:37:13 CDT." <alpine.BSF.2.00.1108170532370.2915@abbf.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz>
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Lars Eighner wrote: > On Wed, 17 Aug 2011, Rui Silva wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I want to install FreeBSD for the first time but I have some doubts regarding > > the ISO images. > > > > I have downloaded an ISO image (FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso) via > > torrent, but soon realised that the packages collection was very poor when > > compared to > > "ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.2-RELEASE/packages/" > > > > Is there any complete ISO image that includes all the packages I saw in > > "ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.2-RELEASE/packages/"? That > > would be really nice. > > Of course there is not because no media appropriate to an ISO image could > contain such an ISO. Rui, in case that's not clear enough, DVD are too Small Raw media sizes DVD self burnable media : 4.7 G http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/txt/cdroms.html Commercial bulk (film/movie) DVDs : 9 G. Blu ray, (rare expensive) : [2 x] 25 Gig http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc ftp protocol does not support command du, so one can't see size of ftp://ftp.freebsd.orgpub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8.2-release/All/ Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below, not above; Indent with "> "; Cumulative like a play script. Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable.
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