CONTENTS: --------- ISO-IMAGES/ Most users will want to retrieve CD-ROM and DVD ISO images from this top-level directory. FreeBSD releases are identified by a high-level machine type and machine target architecture: amd64/amd64 Intel/AMD x86_64 (64-bit) i386/i386 Intel/AMD x86 (32-bit) ia64/ia64 Intel Itanium powerpc/powerpc 32-bit PowerPC powerpc/powerpc64 64-bit PowerPC sparc64/sparc64 Sparc64 Historically, only machine type was used; those directories also exist to hold older releases using that scheme: amd64 i386 ia64 pc98 (Desupported) powerpc sparc64 CDROM and DVD media are also available for purchase from several vendors: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html#MIRRORS-CDROM OLD RELEASES: ------------- Old FreeBSD releases can be found at: http://ftp-archive.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/