Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 09:38:57 +0200 From: Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> Cc: Johan Hendriks <Johan@double-l.nl>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fixit live cd amd64 Message-ID: <20070705073857.GH37187@hoeg.nl> In-Reply-To: <468C806C.6060602@freebsd.org> References: <57200BF94E69E54880C9BB1AF714BBCB19BB63@w2003s01.double-l.local> <468A69F6.4060705@freebsd.org> <20070705040828.GG37187@hoeg.nl> <468C806C.6060602@freebsd.org>
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--AqCDj3hiknadvR6t Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Bruce A. Mah <bmah@freebsd.org> wrote: > If memory serves me right, Ed Schouten wrote: > > * Bruce A. Mah <bmah@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> The Live CD is actually its own disk on amd64 (and maybe one or two > >> other architectures). You want the disk that corresponds to > >> 7.0-CURRENT-200706-amd64-livefs.iso. > >=20 > > Which is, in my opinion, a regression. With previous releases it was > > still possible to perform an installation of FreeBSD by hand. Now you > > need two CD-ROM drives; one with the livefs to boot from and another one > > containing all install sets. >=20 > No, that's not true. You don't boot off the livefs CD...you boot off of > disc1, which also contains all of the installation sets. The livefs is > used principally for the Fixit feature. It's perfectly possible to do a > 7.0 snapshot installation on amd64 with a single CD and a single CD-ROM > drive; I just did this a few days ago in fact. To make sure we're talking about the same subject: with installing FreeBSD `by hand', I mean performing an installation without using sysinstall, but just your shell, newfs, tar, etc. > It'd be nice if the livefs content could fit onto the first CD, but we > just ran out of space. Would there still be room on the livefs CD to store only the `base' install set? That would sure be a life-saver for a lot of people. --=20 Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl> WWW: http://g-rave.nl/ --AqCDj3hiknadvR6t Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGjKAR52SDGA2eCwURAm+6AJ90zxgGF/lME49gS00F57jpK9D6kwCdF9ku hq1gPIJLskAkJ8/n4xOK0ik= =KvHb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AqCDj3hiknadvR6t--
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