Need assitance installin FreeBSD
Jerry McAllister
jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu
Wed Mar 24 07:19:17 PST 2004
>
> Felt a need to clarify this; flame me
> where I'm wrong....
>
> Jerry McAllister wrote:
>
> >Actually, I think the intention of the MINI-ISO is to boot and
> >run the installation with everything loaded from one of the ftp
> >sites.
> >
> >
> >
>
> This doesn't sound correct at all. What you've described is
> what the _floppies_ do. They boot and run sysinstall and get
> you to the 'Net for FTP setup. The mini ISO gives you the
> "minimal" install. That is, the root stuff (/, etc, bin, sbin, stand,
> and /usr/sbin, /usr/bin, the gnu and otherwise contributed base,
> and /var (cron files and so on)....
No. What about systems without floppies?
> After running sysinstall from the mini ISO, you
> should be able to have a working system without
> accessing the 'Net. However, that simply means
> that you can use the CLI to go further, and most
> everyone will want to.
You may be able to get a very minimal system, but you must get
everything else (as you list below) via ftp. So, I may have
underestimated the amount of minimal stuff on the mini-iso, but
the principle is the same. You burn a mini-iso to do an install
via ftp over the net. If you have a floppy drive and want to
use floppies, you can do that just as easily.
> There is no ports skeleton installed, no ports tarballs,
> no documentation, no packages, no compat, no X,
> just good old ls, cat, grep, tar, etc. and a few
> editors (vi, ed, ee) ... As close as you'll get to
> a GUI with the mini ISO and no net connection
> is the sysinstall program itself.
>
> >You just burn the MINI-ISO directly to CD and boot from it - no other
> >manipulation of the file such as trying to uncompress it or make a
> >bootable file system. It is all already there as is..
> >
>
> Yes...IIRC, there can be some issues if the burn tool
> you're using doesn't speak the correct lingo. If that's
> the case, you'll likely not boot from it OR do any further
> installation.
>
> >You burn the CD, boot it, do the preliminary stuff and then when selecting
> >install media, choose ftp and then pick a site that is convenient from
> >the list and it handles all the rest. If you have a good high speed
> >net connection - at a university or something, it takes less than
> >an hour.
> >
> As I said, not necessary until you get around to something
> not listed above. See my earlier post on my strategy for this.
You barely have a system at that level - at least not what we
generally think of as real server or development environments.
////jerry
>
> As for the speed, that's probably true. But the full ISO #1
> was 5-6 hours over T1 last I checked (and trusting the telco's
> word that it was really a T1 --- I was skeptical after seeing
> that estimate....)
Well, I never download the full iso #1 or #2 because it works well
via ftp.
/jrm
>
> Kevin Kinsey
> DaleCo, S.P.
>
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