<https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.1R/announce/#_availability>, for example: > This contains everything necessary to install … and a small set of > pre-built packages aimed at getting a graphical workstation up and running. > … This should be all you need … As far as I can tell: the set is unusable whilst booted from the installation medium. Please see, for example, bug 238314 comment 2. If the intention is for the set to be used after booting the installed system: documentation is lacking. I found a partial answer at <https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/434857/13260>. Also, <https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/bsdinstall/#bsdinstall-installation-media>: > … contains a set of popular binary packages for installing a window manager > and some applications so that a complete system can be installed from media > without requiring a connection to the Internet. I guess, pkg(7) can be used after booting the installed system, to bootstrap from the repository on the DVD but again, documentation is lacking. <https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg&sektion=7&manpath=FreeBSD>
After finding a workaround (to bugs affecting bsdconfig(8)) in the FreeBSD Mall at <https://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/bsddvd13.1?id=y5PfenJ6&mv_pc=39>, I found much the same linked from the previously mentioned answer in Unix & Linux Stack Exchange: <https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/215704/13260> The original erratum: <https://gitlab.com/FreeBSD/freebsd-doc/-/blob/main/website/content/en/releases/10.1R/errata.adoc?plain=1#L115-155>
^Triage: reporter is committer, assign accordingly.
Of all suggested docs, I found the briefest and clearest (for 13.x) to be https://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/bsddvd13.1?id=y5PfenJ6&mv_pc=39 Here's an adaptation including use of USB stick or md device - which could be updated later for use of bsdconfig as new patches are tested and committed. ~~~~~~~ How to install packages from the dvd1 image: • Mount the DVD to the '/dist' directory: # mkdir -p /dist # mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /dist • To install known packages, run: # env REPOS_DIR=/dist/packages/repos pkg install xorg [...] • To view the list of available packages on the DVD, run: # env REPOS_DIR=/dist/packages/repos pkg rquery "%n" If you have the .iso image dd'd to an USB memstick, replace mount /dev/cd0 above with e.g. /dev/da0 Or to mount an .iso file on disk directly: # mdconfig -f /path/to/release.iso [reported unit e.g. md0] # mount -t cd9660 /dev/md0 /dist
Just a suggestion Graham, use anything useful. I know I tend to being too wordy.
Thanks. Re: comment #1, the GitLab view is currently bugged, so I'm adding a Codeberg link. The original, rendered: third bullet point under <https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.1R/errata/#open-issues>.