Hi Ken, cc list Ken Smith wrote: > On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 17:38 +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Hi Hackers, > > FreeBSD install media has lost the tools/ directory from recent CDs & DVD= > s: > >=20 > > Quoting > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.h= > tml > > ... 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. > >=20 > > 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 ? > > It wasn't a size issue that made me stop bothering to put the tools/ > directory on, it was more an issue of the tools just not being current > any more and not having an idea of what to replace them with. At > the point I stopped putting them on the media the world had gotten > to the point any tools that can't handle NTFS were useless.
Ah, OK. > > re@,=20 > > I suggest consider regularising [scripts ?] to avoid > > inconsistent prepend of .../FreeBSD-... to some image names. > > FreeBSD- is consistently prepended to all the images that have been > generated past the date we decided to start prepending FreeBSD- to > the image names. Images that were generated before we decided > to start prepending FreeBSD- to the image names consistently do > not have FreeBSD- prepended to them... :-) OK :-) > > 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." > > It won't happen in time for 8.1 but I'll try to invest some time > in digging up reasonable replacements for the tools that had been > there. Thanks for passing on your friend's suggestion. Thanks to Gary Jennejohn for finding the URL :-) I removed the 80G NTFS & installed another larger disc (dmesg success report sent to re@). If I learn NTFS crunchers, & have useful comments I'll email you notes. Thanks Ken ! 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"
