Re: Pre-install Setup Questions

It appears that John Gaskill <westcoastadguy@yahoo.com> said:
>My expectation after reading the Handbook in advance of the installation attempt was that this img file
>would have all the files on it necessary to install FreeBSD 

Yes it does

> and the Ports collection 

The ports collection is enormous and nobody uses more than a tiny fraction of
them, so no.

There's plenty on the memstick to set up FreeBSD and configure packet filters or
whatever to make a secure system. Then you put it online and install whatever
additional packages you need.

R's,
John