Thanks Jerry
I had a reply that I should rather use 8.0 and there I can only download
disk1, the rest I can get from the ports collection. (I'm not sure that I
can download all 2GB of the DVD successfully, our bandwidth in SA is not
great or very reliable) We want to use freeBSD to setup NAS, do I need any
of the ports to do this?
I'm not looking at freeNAS because the SATA RAID card that I'm looking at
does not support it, the Adaptec 51645 card supports freeBSD though.
Regards
Karen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry McAllister" <jerr...@msu.edu>
To: "Karen Bester" <ka...@smarttech.co.za>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: download
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 03:44:17PM +0200, Karen Bester wrote:
Hi, I wish to download FreeBSD but I am unsure which option to choose.
FTP directory /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.3/ at
ftp.freebsd.org
To view this FTP site in Windows Explorer, click Page, and then click
Open FTP Site in Windows Explorer.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Up to higher level directory
03/21/2010 02:13PM 534 CHECKSUM.MD5
03/21/2010 02:15PM 779 CHECKSUM.SHA256
03/21/2010 02:08PM 40,554,496 FreeBSD-7.3-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso
03/21/2010 02:09PM 612,933,632 FreeBSD-7.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso
03/21/2010 02:09PM 706,879,488 FreeBSD-7.3-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso
03/21/2010 02:10PM 542,836,736 FreeBSD-7.3-RELEASE-i386-disc3.iso
03/21/2010 02:12PM 324,126,720 FreeBSD-7.3-RELEASE-i386-docs.iso
03/21/2010 02:11PM 2,022,695,069 FreeBSD-7.3-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz
03/21/2010 02:12PM 238,215,168 FreeBSD-7.3-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso
Please advise
Depends one circumstances. If you have a good network connection, you
can install over the net and then need only the ...disc1.iso or
possibly the dvd1.iso.
If your net connection is not good enough to support an online install,
then you need either the ...dvd1.iso[.gz] or the first three
of the CDs ...disc1.iso, ...disc2.iso and disc3.iso and you do the
install from local media.
The documentation online has descriptions of what is on these disks,
though I suppose the language use might be a bit arcane for a newbie.
Generally I find it better to install over the net if possible -
but you at least need some starter media - CD/DVD of course.
////jerry
Regards
Karen Bester
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