tools/ directory is missing on recent install media.

[Julian H. Stacey]

Hi Hackers,
FreeBSD install media has lost the tools/ directory from recent CDs & DVDs:

Quoting
  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html
	... to resize your partitions and make space for FreeBSD. The
	tools directory on the CDROM contains two free software
	tools which can carry out this task, namely FIPS and PResizer
	...
	PartitionMagic and GParted are known to work on NTFS. GParted
	is available on a number of Live CD Linux distributions,
	such as SystemRescueCD.

There is no tools/ directory on recent FreeBSD CDROM disc1.iso & dvd1.iso
    ( or on memstick.img, no suprise as recent )
    Maybe an older disc1.iso ran out of room,
    & tools/ got dropped & forgotten, not replaced for next release ?
	( Downloading all of
	ftp://ftp2.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools 
	I see just 2 Meg, not much saving there unless desperate.
		{ boot.bin bootinst.exe bsdboot ckdist.exe ckdist.man
		dist extipl.exe fdimage.exe fips.doc fips.exe
		fips.faq gunzip.exe gzip.exe ide_conf.exe md5.exe
		osbs135.exe osbsbeta.exe pfdisk.exe presizer.doc
		presizer.exe rawrite.exe restorrb.exe srcs }
    Maybe author of dvd1.iso script didnt realise tools/
    used to be on disc1.iso, but had got dropped [for space] ?
    The DVD could easily take 2 meg (or is it copyright reasons FTP V. DVD?).

/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ 
    My local copy has all of these & more:
	amd64/ISO-IMAGES/7.2/7.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso
	amd64/ISO-IMAGES/7.2/7.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso
	amd64/ISO-IMAGES/7.3/FreeBSD-7.3-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso
	amd64/ISO-IMAGES/7.3/FreeBSD-7.3-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso
	amd64/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso
	amd64/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso
	amd64/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso
	amd64/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-amd64-livefs.iso
	amd64/ISO-IMAGES/8.1/FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-amd64-disc1.iso
	amd64/ISO-IMAGES/8.1/FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso
	amd64/ISO-IMAGES/8.1/FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-amd64-memstick.img
	i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.11/4.11-RELEASE-i386-disc1-gnome.iso
	i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.3/6.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso
	i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.4/6.4-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso
	i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.4/6.4-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso
	i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.2/7.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso
	i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.2/7.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso
	i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.3/FreeBSD-7.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso
	i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.3/FreeBSD-7.3-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso
	i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso
	i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso
	i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.1/FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-i386-disc1.iso
	i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.1/FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso
  ( Inconsistent naming also on
    ftp://ftp.freebsd.org , with random prepend of .../FreeBSD-... )

I searched media above, tools/ was on 6.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso but not on 6.4:
	tools/ on ftp site contains:
	bsdboot dist srcs srcs/EXTIPL srcs/EXTIPL/DEVELOP srcs/bteasy
	srcs/fips srcs/fips/restorrb srcs/fips/source srcs/ide_conf
	srcs/pfdisk srcs/rawrite

re@, 
	I suggest consider regularising [scripts ?] to avoid
	inconsistent prepend of .../FreeBSD-... to some image names.

dvd1.iso script author,
	Please consider adding tools/
	We might currently be losing some new people, tempted to
	try BSD, who need to first download a Linux image with disk
	partition shrinker (to run under Linux or MS, whatever),
	who then may think:
		 "Why now dowload a BSD DVD too, Let's continue
		 installing with this Linux DVD in the drive."

An idea for memstick.img later maybe:
	Currently the UFS is on /dev/md0a , perhaps either we might
	put tools ported to BSD on the UFS or tools that run from
	MS, on an MSDOSFS on /dev/md0s2 ?

Partition Shrinker Tools:
	A friend suggested 
		http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/gnu-linux/linux-tools/shrink-your-windows-xp-ntfs-partition-to-half-size-and-install-linux-while-keeping-the-nt-bootloader

	URLs/ reccomendations welcome for other public partition
	shrinkers that run from install media (or MS, but no interest
	in commercial licensed Partition Magic).

	2 I'm downloading to try:

		KNOPPIX_V6.2CD-2009-11-18-EN.iso 	loads of mirrors eg:
			ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/knoppix/

		http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
		http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-testing/0.6.1-2/gparted-live-0.6.1-2.iso/download

Cheers,
Julian
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