Installing FreeBSD from iso without CD, and one more question

[Matthew Seaman]

On 02/01/2011 19:26, majid fooladpour wrote:
> Thank you Mathew. How come the images are so big (917 MB)? The iso
> image I downloaded was only 45.7 MB.

It's Matthew, with two t's.

Anyhow, it's not that the memstick images are so big -- if you look, it
is consistent with the DVD image and bigger than the CD images because
of the limits on the size of what you can put on a CD.  It's how come
the bootonly image is so small?

The bootonly image basically consists of just the OS kernel and
sysinstall.  You can install the OS with this, but only if you have
access to the net while doing so.  Sysinstall will download install sets
from one or other of the FreeBSD FTP sites as part of the install
process.  Ultimately for installing one machine you'll use roughly the
same amount of bandwidth by installing via an iso or by using the
bootonly image and ftp'ing stuff as part of the install.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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