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Rewrite the answer to "which file should I download" - the only versions

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still talks about floppies as if they matter.

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Eitan Adler 2012-10-31 21:24:47 +00:00
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</question>
<answer>
<para>You need three floppy images:
<para>On the
<ulink url="http://www.freebsd.org/where.html">Get &os; page</ulink>
select <literal>[iso]</literal> next to the
architecture you want to use.</para>
<para>Any of the following can be used:</para>
<informaltable frame="none" pgwide="1">
<tgroup cols="2">
<thead>
<row>
<entry>file</entry>
<entry>description</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry><filename>disc1.iso</filename></entry>
<entry>Contains enough to install &os; and
a minimal set of packages.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><filename>dvd1.iso</filename></entry>
<entry>Similar to <filename>disc1.iso</filename>
but with addtional packages.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><filename>memstick.iso</filename></entry>
<entry>A bootable image sufficient for copying to a
USB stick.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><filename>bootonly.iso</filename></entry>
<entry>A minimal image that requires network
access during installation to completely
install &os;.</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</informaltable>
<para>&arch.pc98; users require three floppy images:
<filename>floppies/boot.flp</filename>,
<filename>floppies/kern1.flp</filename>, and
<filename>floppies/kern2.flp</filename>. These images need
<filename>floppies/kern2.flp</filename>. These images
need
to be copied onto floppies by tools like
<command>fdimage</command> or &man.dd.1;.</para>
<para>If you need to download the distributions yourself (for
a DOS file system install, for instance), below are some
recommendations for distributions to grab:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>base/</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>manpages/</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>compat*/</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>doc/</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>src/ssys.*</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
&man.dd.1;.</para>
<para>Full instructions on this procedure and a little bit
more about installation issues in general can be found in