On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 03:34:33AM -0500, Krikket wrote: > I'm going to hold off on replying for a day, while I give this stuff a > shot, but this part does raise a question for me... > > On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > Those packages are what goes onto the FTP sites, and a > > sample of the most popular ones go into the install CDs -- there's > > *far* too much stuff to fit all of it onto a 4 CD distribution set. > > I got my copy of FreeBSD by downloading the isos. CD 1 & 2 and "mini". > That's all that was available. > > CD #1 was the only CD that was ever asked for by the system. > > Where do the other CD's come into play? > > What's the difference between the isos and the 4 cd set? (Aside from the > number of CDs...) I haven't seen anything that directly answers this. > I'm more than willing to support the BSD project, assuming the OS meets my > needs (and so far it looks like it probably will) I was just planning on > starting with the BSD stuffie. 8^) And the BSD books...
The isos on the FreeBSD site are what's distributed as disks 1 and 2
of the 4 CD set. You only get the other two CDs (which contain
various selected packages) if you buy a set from FreeBSDMall or Deamon
News' bsdmall.
Cheers,
Matthew
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