From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 5 07:38:59 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17A3F16A400; Thu, 5 Jul 2007 07:38:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ed@hoeg.nl) Received: from palm.hoeg.nl (mx0.hoeg.nl [83.98.131.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D05D813C455; Thu, 5 Jul 2007 07:38:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ed@hoeg.nl) Received: by palm.hoeg.nl (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7D1A81CC28; Thu, 5 Jul 2007 09:38:57 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 09:38:57 +0200 From: Ed Schouten To: "Bruce A. Mah" Message-ID: <20070705073857.GH37187@hoeg.nl> References: <57200BF94E69E54880C9BB1AF714BBCB19BB63@w2003s01.double-l.local> <468A69F6.4060705@freebsd.org> <20070705040828.GG37187@hoeg.nl> <468C806C.6060602@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AqCDj3hiknadvR6t" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <468C806C.6060602@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: Johan Hendriks , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fixit live cd amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 07:38:59 -0000 --AqCDj3hiknadvR6t Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Bruce A. Mah wrote: > If memory serves me right, Ed Schouten wrote: > > * Bruce A. Mah 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 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--