FreeBSD 7.2 ia64

[Clayton Wilhelm da Rosa]

Hi my name is Clayton Wilhelm da Rosa,

I made the dowmload of FreeBSD 7.2 ia64 i wanna know if is normal the files of disc 2 and 3 have only 364Kb size.

thank you very much.




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[Tim Judd-3]

On 10/30/09, Clayton Wilhelm da Rosa <claytonwilhelm_r@...> wrote:
> Hi my name is Clayton Wilhelm da Rosa,
>
> I made the dowmload of FreeBSD 7.2 ia64 i wanna know if is normal the files
> of disc 2 and 3 have only 364Kb size.
>
> thank you very much.

Yes, that's how it is been released.

Disc 2 and 3 are prebuilt programs - and apparently there were none bundled.


You can build all programs you want via ports.  If they're not
compatible, then it won't build.


Enjoy!
--TJ
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[Matt Szubrycht-3]

That's not normal... but then, what is these days?
You probably saved some webpage instead of the actual iso (or whatever  
other format you were trying for)

As old video games used to say: 'Try again?'

Cheers,
Matt

On Oct 30, 2009, at 3:09 PM, Clayton Wilhelm da Rosa wrote:

> Hi my name is Clayton Wilhelm da Rosa,
>
> I made the dowmload of FreeBSD 7.2 ia64 i wanna know if is normal  
> the files of disc 2 and 3 have only 364Kb size.
>
> thank you very much.
>
>
>
>
>      
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[Chuck Swiger-2]

Hi--

On Oct 30, 2009, at 3:09 PM, Clayton Wilhelm da Rosa wrote:
> I made the dowmload of FreeBSD 7.2 ia64 i wanna know if is normal  
> the files of disc 2 and 3 have only 364Kb size.

Do you actually have an Itanium processor?  They were pretty much only  
used in high-end multi-CPU enterprise boxes costing hundreds of  
thousands of dollars.  I'm not sure the majority of ports were ever  
built for ia64, which might be why disk 2 & 3 are so small.

Most people should be going for amd64 images instead, which can also  
be used with Intel EM64T (aka x86-64 or Intel64) CPUs such as P4/Xeon/
Core/Core2/Core i5/i7...

Regards,
--
-Chuck

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2009/10/30 Matt Szubrycht <matts@...>:

> That's not normal... but then, what is these days?
> You probably saved some webpage instead of the actual iso (or whatever other
> format you were trying for)
>
> As old video games used to say: 'Try again?'
>
> Cheers,
> Matt
>
> On Oct 30, 2009, at 3:09 PM, Clayton Wilhelm da Rosa wrote:
>
>> Hi my name is Clayton Wilhelm da Rosa,
>>
>> I made the dowmload of FreeBSD 7.2 ia64 i wanna know if is normal the
>> files of disc 2 and 3 have only 364Kb size.
>>
>> thank you very much.

I am going to guess, that (1) as ia64 has quite a small
installed base as compared with i386 & amd64, and
(2) as disks 2 & 3 are merely packages (many of
which may not build for ia64 in any case (I do not
know, excoriate me not for my ignorance) and
utterly unneeded to install the basic system, the
maintainers, developers, or packagers may see
building and distributing such a large number of
rarely used or perhaps broken packages as a
poor use of their time.

Summary: those are empty iso images and appear
to be so on all of the mirrors I checked.  Don't worry
about it, use disk1 to install and build your 3rd party
applications from ports.

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