Installation

[Manolis Kiagias]

Mike Clarke wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 March 2008, dajaasge wrote:
>
>   
>> As a relatively inexperienced user of FreeBSD I have little input to offer
>>   the community as a whole save to suggest that offering a DVD iso image
>> from which to install would save the sometimes extreme tediousness of disc
>> swapping when adding packages. If I knew more about it I would make such an
>> image myself, however, having never had to do it before it is something I
>> will have to pen in for a later time.
>>     
>
> Creating a DVD from the official FreeBSD CD isos (disc[1-3]) is quite 
> straightforward. Take a look at the instructions on 
> <http://www.pa.msu.edu/~tigner/bsddvd.html>. It describes creating a DVD from 
> a 2 CD set but the process is the same for 3, just include an extra step to 
> mount and copy disc3 in the same way as he describes disc2, then continue 
> with the instructions for disc2 and disc1 in that order.
>
>   
Or, if for some reason you don't want to build it yourself, download 
this torrent:

http://www.tuxdistro.com/torrents-details.php?id=921