Summary of CD (ISO) contents

Jerry McAllister jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu
Mon Jan 23 11:59:09 PST 2006


> 
> Good afternoon...
> 
> I've searched high and low (handbook, readme.txt's, gmane.org, google, 
> bsdforums) but I have not been able to find a summary of what is on the 
> ISO images (CD's) for FreeBSD (various versions).
> 
> How can find out what I'm downloading before I download five images only 
> to find out that the fifth one was all I needed?

It is there.
You really only need the first one.
It has the whole system and sources for the most popular ports.
Use that to start the install and do the install via ftp over
the net.

All the rest of the CDs are additional ports sources.

////jerry

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