From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 29 14:33:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA05942 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 14:33:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA05890 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 14:32:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA00947; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 14:32:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 14:32:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: kim bauer cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install In-Reply-To: <324DFAB3.25DF@hidesert.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 28 Sep 1996, kim bauer wrote: > ran over this thing freebsd while sliding around and decide to download, > so i quess this is where the tale begins in trying to get it to work > and so after several attempts and numerous articles about boot sectors > and god only knows what else about the "basics" of computing,what is the > easiest way to ftp the files to "floppies"(60megs?!!) using a pentium > box running win95 over an dailup account(assumming the faq says only > dos works to do this and do i telnet in or what) I would suggest reading the INSTALL file, available as ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.5-RELEASE/INSTALL, and/or the Handbook at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major