Sunry Chen writes:

>I didn't see any DVD iso release information on FreeBSD release
>page. I'm wondering why there's no DVD iso release. For CDs I need
>to burn 3 to get it start, why not just one DVD? Many Linux releases
>support DVD iso release.

You actually only need one CD to do a basic install. At the moment
there's no DVD produced automatically mainly because no one has got
around to automating the process - there is a plan to provide this
for releases in the near future (but I'm not sure if that will be
this round of releases or the next).

David.

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On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 10:55:23 +0800, Sunry Chen wrote:
> For CDs I need to burn 3 to get it start, why not just one DVD?

Already noted but worth pointing out specifically:

You do not need all available images to get started.

The minimum you need is actually the bootonly image and a network
connection to where the rest is accessible[1]. Having more options does
mean you have to figure out just what image(s) you want.


[1] Which might be an official site, or something you setup.

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Sunry Chen wrote:

> I didn't see any DVD iso release information on FreeBSD release
> page. I'm wondering why there's no DVD iso release. For CDs I need
> to burn 3 to get it start, why not just one DVD? Many Linux releases
> support DVD iso release.
>
> Why not? Or did I miss anything?

You only need one CD for a basic install, the other CDs just provide more
ports. You can download all three and use them to create a single DVD by
following the instructions at ,
these were written for version 6.1 when you only needed 2 CDs but extending
the procedure for 3 is trivial. If you really want to have lots of ports
available locally for the install then making the DVD will avoid having to
do frequent tedious CD swapping but be aware that most of the ports on the
DVD are likely to be outdated by the time you install your system.

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Mike Clarke

Mike Clarke wrote:
> Sunry Chen wrote:
>
>> I didn't see any DVD iso release information on FreeBSD release
>> page. I'm wondering why there's no DVD iso release. For CDs I need
>> to burn 3 to get it start, why not just one DVD? Many Linux releases
>> support DVD iso release.
>>
>> Why not? Or did I miss anything?
>
> You only need one CD for a basic install, the other CDs just provide more
> ports. You can download all three and use them to create a single DVD by
> following the instructions at ,
> these were written for version 6.1 when you only needed 2 CDs but extending
> the procedure for 3 is trivial. If you really want to have lots of ports
> available locally for the install then making the DVD will avoid having to
> do frequent tedious CD swapping but be aware that most of the ports on the
> DVD are likely to be outdated by the time you install your system.

s/ports/packages/g

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On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:39:30 +0100, Mike Clarke wrote:
> Sunry Chen wrote:
>> I didn't see any DVD iso release information on FreeBSD release
>> page. [...]
>
> If you really want to have lots of ports available locally for the
> install then making the DVD will avoid having to do frequent tedious
> CD swapping but be aware that most of the ports on the DVD are likely
> to be outdated by the time you install your system.

That's a very good point.

I usually install the base system, a few minimal ports (`screen', `bash'
and `vim-lite'), then I install `portupgrade' and use the online
packages for most of the stuff I want to install or I build my own.

After every successful portupgrade run, I use `pkg_create -b' to save
pre-built packages in `/usr/pkg/{i386,amd64}' and I burn package DVDs
with all the packages from my `/usr/pkg' tree :-)

Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> After every successful portupgrade run, I use `pkg_create -b' to save
> pre-built packages in `/usr/pkg/{i386,amd64}' and I burn package DVDs
> with all the packages from my `/usr/pkg' tree :-)

Ohh, thats nice.
I didn't know about 'pkg_create' - thanks!
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Warren Block wrote:

> s/ports/packages/g

Oops, yes. Thanks for spotting that Warren.

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