Lars Eighner wrote: > On Wed, 17 Aug 2011, Rui Silva wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I want to install FreeBSD for the first time but I have some doubts > > regarding > > the ISO images. > > > > I have downloaded an ISO image (FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso) via > > torrent, but soon realised that the packages collection was very poor when > > compared to > > "ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.2-RELEASE/packages/"; > > > > Is there any complete ISO image that includes all the packages I saw in > > "ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.2-RELEASE/packages/";? > > That > > would be really nice. > > Of course there is not because no media appropriate to an ISO image could > contain such an ISO.
Rui, in case that's not clear enough, DVD are too Small Raw media sizes DVD self burnable media : 4.7 G http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/txt/cdroms.html Commercial bulk (film/movie) DVDs : 9 G. Blu ray, (rare expensive) : [2 x] 25 Gig http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc ftp protocol does not support command du, so one can't see size of ftp://ftp.freebsd.orgpub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8.2-release/All/ Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below, not above; Indent with "> "; Cumulative like a play script. Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
