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You can install from a flash drive or single dvd. They've been working fairly heavily on the install process in versions 9 and 10. EDIT: I thought about this
by elektronjunge 12y ago
You can install from a flash drive or single dvd. They've been working fairly heavily on the install process in versions 9 and 10.
EDIT:
I thought about this more after submitting. The many disks are likely for seeding the ports tree. If you have an internet connection available or opt to not install the ports tree you can install off much smaller media.
- Zancarius 12y agoI don't think the ports tree is quite that big, at least when it's compressed (presently ~220ish megs for FreeBSD 10 as a tgz), because ports only contain Makefiles and descriptive metadata. It used to be the case, I think, that the extra disc images were for installing applications outside the base distributions and the likes as they themselves contained a snapshot of some of the binary archives for a given release. I don't know for sure, though, because I always used ports (which is better and obviously more up to date).