readme for iso files

Per Gunnarsson grubomantic at googlemail.com
Sun Jan 25 11:34:11 UTC 2009


I think this info from http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.1R/announce.html
should also be posted as a readme file
in pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/7.1/ on the ftp servers.



FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, ia64, pc98,
powerpc, and sparc64 architectures.

FreeBSD 7.1 can be installed from bootable ISO images or over the network;
the required files can be downloaded via FTP or BitTorrent as described in
the sections below. While some of the smaller FTP mirrors may not carry all
architectures, they will all generally contain the more common ones, such as
i386 and amd64.

MD5 and SHA256 hashes for the release ISO images are included at the bottom
of this message.

The purpose of the ISO images provided as part of the release are as
follows:
 dvd1:

Contains everything necessary to install the base FreeBSD operating system,
a collection of pre-built packages, the documentation, and supports booting
into a "livefs" based rescue mode. This should be all you need if you can
burn and use DVD-sized media.
disc1, disc2, disc3, livefs, docs:

disc1 contains the base FreeBSD system and a few pre-built packages. disc2
and disc3 contain more pre-built packages. Those three can be burned to
CDROM sized media and should be all you need to do a normal installation.
livefs contains support for entering into a "livefs" based rescue mode but
you need disc1 to do the initial boot first. docs contains the
documentation.
bootonly:

This supports booting a machine using the CDROM drive but does not contain
the support for installing FreeBSD from the CD itself, you would need to
perform a network based install (e.g. from an FTP server) after booting from
the CD.

FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE can also be purchased on CD-ROM or DVD from several
vendors. One of the vendors that will be offering FreeBSD 7.1-based products
is:

FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, ia64, pc98,
powerpc, and sparc64 architectures.

FreeBSD 7.1 can be installed from bootable ISO images or over the network;
the required files can be downloaded via FTP or BitTorrent as described in
the sections below. While some of the smaller FTP mirrors may not carry all
architectures, they will all generally contain the more common ones, such as
i386 and amd64.

MD5 and SHA256 hashes for the release ISO images are included at the bottom
of this message.

The purpose of the ISO images provided as part of the release are as
follows:
 dvd1:

Contains everything necessary to install the base FreeBSD operating system,
a collection of pre-built packages, the documentation, and supports booting
into a "livefs" based rescue mode. This should be all you need if you can
burn and use DVD-sized media.
disc1, disc2, disc3, livefs, docs:

disc1 contains the base FreeBSD system and a few pre-built packages. disc2
and disc3 contain more pre-built packages. Those three can be burned to
CDROM sized media and should be all you need to do a normal installation.
livefs contains support for entering into a "livefs" based rescue mode but
you need disc1 to do the initial boot first. docs contains the
documentation.
bootonly:

This supports booting a machine using the CDROM drive but does not contain
the support for installing FreeBSD from the CD itself, you would need to
perform a network based install (e.g. from an FTP server) after booting from
the CD.

FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE can also be purchased on CD-ROM or DVD from several
vendors. One of the vendors that will be offering FreeBSD 7.1-based products
is:

FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, ia64, pc98,
powerpc, and sparc64 architectures.

FreeBSD 7.1 can be installed from bootable ISO images or over the network;
the required files can be downloaded via FTP or BitTorrent as described in
the sections below. While some of the smaller FTP mirrors may not carry all
architectures, they will all generally contain the more common ones, such as
i386 and amd64.

MD5 and SHA256 hashes for the release ISO images are included at the bottom
of this message.

The purpose of the ISO images provided as part of the release are as
follows:
 dvd1:

Contains everything necessary to install the base FreeBSD operating system,
a collection of pre-built packages, the documentation, and supports booting
into a "livefs" based rescue mode. This should be all you need if you can
burn and use DVD-sized media.
disc1, disc2, disc3, livefs, docs:

disc1 contains the base FreeBSD system and a few pre-built packages. disc2
and disc3 contain more pre-built packages. Those three can be burned to
CDROM sized media and should be all you need to do a normal installation.
livefs contains support for entering into a "livefs" based rescue mode but
you need disc1 to do the initial boot first. docs contains the
documentation.
bootonly:

This supports booting a machine using the CDROM drive but does not contain
the support for installing FreeBSD from the CD itself, you would need to
perform a network based install (e.g. from an FTP server) after booting from
the CD.



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