Purpose of FreeBSD 5.3 CDs

[Jeremy Faulkner]

Loren M. Lang wrote:
> I'm trying to figure what all the various cd's for FreeBSD 5.3 are for.
> The miniinst cd is for installing the freebsd base system, basically
> everything installed with make installworld.
> 
> disc1 is miniinst + packages + ports + src + doc?
> 
> disc2 from past releases was just a rescue disk and a bit smaller than a
> full cd.  Now it's a full sized cd, but still looks like a rescue disk.
> Is that all it is or does it include more packages, etc. for the
> install.
> 
> bootonly is just a boot loader, plus maybe a shell?  What it's main
> purpose?

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Jeremy Faulkner	<gldisater at gldis.ca>