Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:13:30 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: Rui Silva <rsilva.pt@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISO images Message-ID: <20110817131330.GA51182@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <EB1B12E0-3D3B-4008-881B-BC33047B87B9@gmail.com> References: <EB1B12E0-3D3B-4008-881B-BC33047B87B9@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:56:35AM +0100, Rui Silva typed: > 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. Not a direct answer, but after installation from the DVD you have, you can easily install any package from the ftp site by running pkg_add -r <packagename> Ruben
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