From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 23 12:59:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merganser.its.uu.se (merganser.its.uu.se [130.238.6.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4AE937C668 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 12:59:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se) Received: from regulus.student.UU.SE ([130.238.5.2]:40223 "HELO ertr1013.student.csd.uu.se") by merganser.its.uu.se with SMTP id ; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 21:59:31 +0100 Received: (qmail 5973 invoked by uid 1001); 23 Mar 2000 20:59:18 -0000 Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 21:59:18 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: "Ronald G. Arnold Jr." Cc: Kyle Pos , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Size of FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000323215917.A5952@student.csd.uu.se> References: <38DA72D3.F5029164@netscape.net> <38DA8128.7DCF2C61@colemantx.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <38DA8128.7DCF2C61@colemantx.com>; from rarnold@colemantx.com on Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 02:40:08PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 02:40:08PM -0600, Ronald G. Arnold Jr. wrote: > I downloaded FreeBSD from an ftp site, it took 5 days and it's 500 Mb. > That was over a dial up connection of 28.8 Kbps, although my modem is a > 56k, my dial up isn't that fast. That was from Win98 and 24 hours a day, > not counting reconnects and reboots. That also doesn't include the > packages, it took several days to get X installed from the ports. I have > the Cds and The Complete FreeBSD book, from Walnut Creek now, and would > recommend getting the CDs. > Althoug I too would recommend to get the CDs I must say it doesn't take *that* long to install by FTP. When I installed over a 33.6k modem it was more like 10-12 hours and about 200MB (compressed) This depends of course on what parts you want to include, but those numbers include some packages and X. > > > Kyle Pos wrote: > > > > I want to install FreeBSD by downloading it from a FTP-server. But I'd > > like to know how many MB it is. > > Thanx :-) > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message