Jerry McAllister wrote:
Maybe I am wrong, but I feel it shouldn't be necessary to waste 3
CDs
from installation if I have a high-speed permanent Internet
connection.
So
wouldn't just 1 DVD-RW do?
Basically, you are wrong, because you haven't looked far enough in to
things to know that FreeBSD has done it that way from the beginning
(or almost that far back). I have never done a complete install from
a CD or DVD, but just acquired the first disk, booted the install program
and then done the install over the net. I've been doing that for more
than 10 years and am far from being an early adopter. Others have
done so much longer.
But, some people are [still] not in the positition to be able to do
installs over the net. Their service is inadequate or, in some
cases they are not even connected, so the whole system is made available
to them on disk as well.
Actually, I believe, if you are doing just the FreeBSD install, and
not at the same time installing some of the ports, it is still layed
out to need only the first CD even if you are not installing over the net.
But, I haven't checked recent versions. The other CDs contain the
sources for various ports and some special case things.
////jerry
This is still the behavior. You can install any of the base
distributions for that release with only disc 1, as well as some of the
ports. I have had issues booting the netinstall cds for some reason, and
installing the distribution from the cd goes faster anyway.
-Steve
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