What is the difference between the Installation Media for FreeBSD 8.0. One is a CD and the other is the DVD…any place where I can find what packages are not present in the CD media that are in the DVD media.
Freebsd – Difference between FreeBSD 8.0 CD and DVD
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The subsequent install disks for FreeBSD contain 'as many third party packages as would fit on the disk'.
The DVD appears to be the first CD + those packages, bundled together.
It's odd that the 8.0 FreeBSD release doesn't include any additional CD images. The previous releases do.
There's some mention here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/announce.html
From the page:
dvd1
This contains everything necessary to install the base FreeBSD operating system, a collection of pre-built packages, and the documentation. It also supports booting into a "livefs" based rescue mode. This should be all you need if you can burn and use DVD-sized media.
disc1
This contains the base FreeBSD operating system and the documentation packages for CDROM-sized media. There are no other packages.
Looking back to the release candidate for 8.0, I found the following info:
"ISO images for all supported architectures are available on the FTP sites, and a "memory stick" image is available for amd64/i386 architectures. For amd64/i386 architectures the cdrom and memstick images include the documentation packages this time but no other packages. The DVD image includes a rough pass at what packages will be available on the official release media but is subject to change between now and release."
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-September/052024.html
Since 8.0 was only recently released, it is possible the additional disks will be released soon.
The disks appear to be available already for PowerPC and ia64 builds.