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[Matthew Seaman]

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On 17/05/2010 16:00:29, Karen Bester wrote:
> I'm not sure if I will be able to download 2GB successfully, I prefer
> getting the separate ISO's. I only see disk1 for 8.0, where are the rest?

Disc1 is all you need to install the OS.  The other disk images contain
mostly precompiled 3rd party packages -- I think the reason that disk2
and disk3 got dropped was that even the size of two CD images is just a
fraction of what it would take to contain most of the available ports.
Rather than make an invidious choice (accompanied, no doubt, by
interminable arguments and bikeshedding) about what should be included,
they decided to reserve the .iso images for FreeBSD and let people
download individual pkgs from the FTP sites instead.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

PS.  Just to make sure: you do understand that the i386 arch is for all
Intel and AMD processors running in *32bit* mode?  If you've got a more
modern Intel Xeon or Core2 or later processor (or indeed anything AMD
since about 5 years ago), then the amd64 arch will give you better
results.  As the name suggests, this is the *64bit* version of FreeBSD
for Intel derived architectures.  Take care to choose the right
alternative before you put much work into building your system, as
switching from one to the other is pretty painful.

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