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The CD
If you need to do more than one installation, or you're in a situation where you need to install the firewall on a system that cannot use the internet, it's useful to have a CD version. Also, if you don't want to go through all the trouble of downloading all the sources, the CD is the best place. Here's all the features:
- Bootable. If your computers supports booting off CD, this CD will do that just fine.
- PPPoE Support. The boot floppies on the net do not yet support PPP over Ethernet, the CD version does. We're working on getting the PPPoE support into the floppy disks as well, but right now you need to install with a CD to get this (you don't need to boot from the CD, just have the CD available for the floppy disks to use.
- Floppy images. If your computer does not support booting off CD, everything you need to build the floppy disks to start the installation (and finish it from CD) can be found on the CD as well.
- All the sources. Kernel, installer, well, everything we used to build it.
- All of NetBSD for i386. You could call it a distribution, just like the Red Hat CD with GNU/Linux. The full NetBSD kit is on it, as well as all of the NetBSD source code, and the Packages collection source code (not the packages themselves, though!) We have no intention of competing with real distribution kits. So apart from the firewall, you can install a full NetBSD system as well with this CD.
To buy the CD from us, visit the Kagi order pages we set up, or click the PayPal button below, and make sure you enter the address we need to ship the CD to. The price? $25.-
For international users, this includes shipping (for Dutch users, it includes BTW).
The Distribution Kit
This is basically the same as what's on the CD above, but with one extra:
- All the package sources. You could call it a distribution, just like the Red Hat CD with GNU/Linux. The full NetBSD kit is on it, as well as all of the NetBSD source code, and the Packages collection source code (including allmost all of the source for all of the packages! Thats over 2300 packages, actually) So if you plan to install a lot of extra's on your NetBSD system, but don't want to download everything, this is what you want. Of course it installs the firewall as well, if you want to. This 3-CD set costs only $50. Visit this page at NetBSD.org to see everything that is on it. Some software aiuthors don't allow distribution of their source on a CD set like this, so of course we left them off. For Open Source enthusiasts, this is a significant part of all Open Source software available on the market.
To buy the CD from us, visit the Kagi order pages we set up, and make sure you enter the address we need to ship the CD to. The price? $50.-
For international users, this includes shipping (for Dutch users, it includes BTW).
The Donations
No, we don't send you a T-shirt if you send us any money, but we sure do appreciate it. If you feel you don't need a CD, or feel $25 is just too much, you can enter any amount you want on the Kagi order pages we set up, or simply use PayPal, by clicking this button:
Creating your own CD
If you just want to install the firewall with one of the options that's only avalable on CD, like PPTP and PPPoE, you can create your own. The installer looks for a standard ISO-9660 CD (if that doesn't mean anything, just create a normal data CD on your windows PC, and you're set), with one file on it: firewall.tgz. The trick is that you must put it in a special position, so that it's several folders deep. The full path to the file must be this:
\i386\binary\sets\firewall.tgz
Of course, this CD won't have all the goodies listed above, but the installer will find what it needs to complete the process.
