FreeBSD ISO-image

[Matthew Seaman]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 08:52:20AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:

> disc2 is add on stuff.  Lots of packages and perhaps other things (not sure
> of exact details)

disc2 is the 'rescue disk' -- basically it contains a bootable live
filesystem image.  That's why it's smaller than the disc1 image:

    ftp> pwd
    257 "/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.10"
    ftp> dir
    229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||16071|)
    150 Here comes the directory listing.
    -rw-r--r--    1 110      0        648151040 May 25 23:07 4.10-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso
    -rw-r--r--    1 110      0        286195712 May 25 23:08 4.10-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso
    -rw-r--r--    1 110      0        228786176 May 25 23:00 4.10-RELEASE-i386-miniinst.iso
    -rw-r--r--    1 110      0             210 May 25 23:13 CHECKSUMS.MD5
    226 Directory send OK.

If you buy a set of CDs from a vendor (freebsdmall.com, bsdmall.com)
you'll typically get a 4 disc set, where discs 1 and 2 are as on the
FTP sites, but discs 3 and 4 are chock full of yummy software
goodness.  Even so, what you'll get is only a fraction of what's
available from ports.  Actually, nowadays you can probably get a DVD
instead of disks 3 and 4, which should get you quite a lot of the
available ports.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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