Hi Hackers, FreeBSD install media has lost the tools/ directory from recent CDs & DVDs:
Quoting http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html ... to resize your partitions and make space for FreeBSD. The tools directory on the CDROM contains two free software tools which can carry out this task, namely FIPS and PResizer ... PartitionMagic and GParted are known to work on NTFS. GParted is available on a number of Live CD Linux distributions, such as SystemRescueCD. There is no tools/ directory on recent FreeBSD CDROM disc1.iso & dvd1.iso ( or on memstick.img, no suprise as recent ) Maybe an older disc1.iso ran out of room, & tools/ got dropped & forgotten, not replaced for next release ? ( Downloading all of ftp://ftp2.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools I see just 2 Meg, not much saving there unless desperate. { boot.bin bootinst.exe bsdboot ckdist.exe ckdist.man dist extipl.exe fdimage.exe fips.doc fips.exe fips.faq gunzip.exe gzip.exe ide_conf.exe md5.exe osbs135.exe osbsbeta.exe pfdisk.exe presizer.doc presizer.exe rawrite.exe restorrb.exe srcs } Maybe author of dvd1.iso script didnt realise tools/ used to be on disc1.iso, but had got dropped [for space] ? The DVD could easily take 2 meg (or is it copyright reasons FTP V. DVD?). /pub/FreeBSD/releases/ My local copy has all of these & more: amd64/ISO-IMAGES/7.2/7.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso amd64/ISO-IMAGES/7.2/7.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso amd64/ISO-IMAGES/7.3/FreeBSD-7.3-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso amd64/ISO-IMAGES/7.3/FreeBSD-7.3-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso amd64/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso amd64/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso amd64/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso amd64/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-amd64-livefs.iso amd64/ISO-IMAGES/8.1/FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-amd64-disc1.iso amd64/ISO-IMAGES/8.1/FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso amd64/ISO-IMAGES/8.1/FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-amd64-memstick.img i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.11/4.11-RELEASE-i386-disc1-gnome.iso i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.3/6.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.4/6.4-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.4/6.4-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.2/7.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.2/7.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.3/FreeBSD-7.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.3/FreeBSD-7.3-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.1/FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-i386-disc1.iso i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.1/FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso ( Inconsistent naming also on ftp://ftp.freebsd.org , with random prepend of .../FreeBSD-... ) I searched media above, tools/ was on 6.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso but not on 6.4: tools/ on ftp site contains: bsdboot dist srcs srcs/EXTIPL srcs/EXTIPL/DEVELOP srcs/bteasy srcs/fips srcs/fips/restorrb srcs/fips/source srcs/ide_conf srcs/pfdisk srcs/rawrite re@, I suggest consider regularising [scripts ?] to avoid inconsistent prepend of .../FreeBSD-... to some image names. dvd1.iso script author, Please consider adding tools/ We might currently be losing some new people, tempted to try BSD, who need to first download a Linux image with disk partition shrinker (to run under Linux or MS, whatever), who then may think: "Why now dowload a BSD DVD too, Let's continue installing with this Linux DVD in the drive." An idea for memstick.img later maybe: Currently the UFS is on /dev/md0a , perhaps either we might put tools ported to BSD on the UFS or tools that run from MS, on an MSDOSFS on /dev/md0s2 ? Partition Shrinker Tools: A friend suggested http://jamesmcdonald.id.au/gnu-linux/linux-tools/shrink-your-windows-xp-ntfs-partition-to-half-size-and-install-linux-while-keeping-the-nt-bootloader URLs/ reccomendations welcome for other public partition shrinkers that run from install media (or MS, but no interest in commercial licensed Partition Magic). 2 I'm downloading to try: KNOPPIX_V6.2CD-2009-11-18-EN.iso loads of mirrors eg: ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/knoppix/ http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-testing/0.6.1-2/gparted-live-0.6.1-2.iso/download Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text. Not HTML, Not quoted-printable, Not Base64. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
