Installation dvd

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Wed Jun 24 05:32:07 UTC 2015


On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 23:17:00 -0453, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> On 06/23/15 23:09, Polytropon wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 19:52:22 -0700, Jesse Gooch wrote:
> >> Actually I think the DVD may contain some software. It's the CD that
> >> only contains base. Sorry for the bad info.
> > The installation CD just contains a very narrow set of additional
> > applications. It's basically the OS parts and assorted software.
> > The main purpose of this media is to get the OS running, setup
> > network connection, and start installing via Internet.
> >
> > The DVD contains more software as precompiled packages, to be
> > installed with pkg. Of course that software has the versions
> > that have been "freezed" prior to RELEASE. If you need something
> 
> "frozen" (sorry, couldn't resist :-) )

Hey, that's artistic newspeak freedom! :-)

being freezed: from "freeze" (as in "code freeze"): code in
the state of being closed to any further alteration; usually
used with quotation marks

consult ns dict 10 ed p 404
:-)


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