on 09/11/2007 01:23 Wayne Chapeskie said the following: > > We are still in the beta stage of the release cycle, where the mailing > list is actually a good place to find out what is going on. Web site > documentation usually doesn't catch up until release time. The purposes of > the various release ISO images are documented in the release > announcements -- see the 6.2 release announcement at > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/announce.html > which did indeed mention the "live CD" functionality in disc1. > > In 6.2, only ia64 had a livefs ISO, amd64 did not, nor did i386. The > configuration of the release ISO's does change over the years, and has > in the past been documented in a README in the ftp directories, and is > now documented in the release announcements. The ia64 livefs ISO was a > slight oversight in the 6.2 release notes, but since we are going to be > seeing more cases of livefs not fitting on the disc1 install, I imagine > future release announcements will reflect that. > >
I understand. Maybe a short addition to the Handbook would be nice, maybe somewhere near "2.3.6 Obtain the FreeBSD Installation Files". I think ISO image functions/layouts change rarely enough to be documented in the Handbook. Just my 2c. -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"