FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 Available...

Ken Smith kensmith at buffalo.edu
Wed Oct 12 13:53:50 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 14:39 +0100, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On 29/09/2011 02:42, Ken Smith wrote:
> > MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA3-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 2ce7b93d28fd7ff37965893f1af3f7fc
> > MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA3-amd64-dvd1.iso) = 4affc701f2052edc548274f090e49235
> > MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-BETA3-amd64-memstick.img) = e260f2f2122326cb9a93ac83eb006c1c
> 
> The -dvd1.iso files seem to be less than a CD, at 610MB. Are they 
> expected to contain more data over time, or could 'dvd' be removed?
> 

I was planning on them having package sets.  The new installer doesn't
support installing packages like sysinstall had but if I provide Gnome,
KDE, and perhaps a small set of other stuff it would be useful to people
with crummy network connectivity.  They could install the packages from
the DVD instead of needing to have everything downloaded.

-- 
                                                Ken Smith
- From there to here, from here to      |       kensmith at buffalo.edu
  there, funny things are everywhere.   |
                      - Theodor Geisel  |
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