Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 17:55:13 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: al plant <noc@hdk5.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help with making DVD install disc Message-ID: <20160114171111.C93547@sola.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <mailman.97.1452254402.51970.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> References: <mailman.97.1452254402.51970.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
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In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 605, Issue 5, Message: 5 On Thu, 07 Jan 2016 10:07:09 -1000 al plant <noc@hdk5.net> wrote: > Aloha List, Aloha Al, I noticed in the archives that this seemed unanswered .. > I need to make a .iso dvd 11 to test hardware. How do I locate a i386 > copy like below with a dvd designation instead of disc1 or has > something changed since I did this a while ago? > > FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-i386-20160106-r293245-disc1.iso <https://pub.allbsd.org/FreeBSD/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/11.0/FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-i386-20160106-r293245-disc1.iso>; > > I looked at handbook but couldnt find the how to for this. See the > dvd under releases but I want to test 11 for this email desktop > hardware. The package set on the dvds is only rolled just before release time, when the odds of it being a consistent set are at least reasonable. I guess you could use 10.2-RELEASE dvd, then upgrade system sources with svnlite or svnup, though already you need online access to do that. You _might_ even get away with replacing base.txz and kernel.txz with CURRENT ones on a re-rolled 10.2 dvd, but I wouldn't bet on it .. Even with 10.2, there's a dance to be performed to get around bugs in bsdinstall and/or bsdconfig regarding finding the packages on the dvd; the procedure required is given in the release notes. We're not where 1GB memsticks were big anymore, and there are now plenty of notebooks and tablets without optical drives; I really don't know why there isn't a (say) 4GB memstick image with what's on the dvd, and room to even add more packages .. I had a go at that for 9.3 but ran into the same issues getting pkg pointing to the local packages, before the 10.2 method was documented. Even now, not everyone is always online :) cheers, Ian
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