From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 28 16:43:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA09962 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 16:43:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from euthyphro.uchicago.edu (euthyphro.uchicago.edu [128.135.21.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA09850 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 16:43:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfarrell@phaedrus.uchicago.edu) Received: from phaedrus.uchicago.edu (phaedrus [128.135.21.10]) by euthyphro.uchicago.edu (8.8.6/8.8.4) with ESMTP id SAA06373; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 18:43:07 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from sfarrell@localhost) by phaedrus.uchicago.edu (8.8.8/8.8.5) id SAA18996; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 18:43:04 -0500 (CDT) To: Mariam Sow Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem References: <3.0.1.32.19980428134314.00700878@enda.sn> From: sfarrell+lists@farrell.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 28 Apr 1998 18:43:04 -0500 In-Reply-To: Mariam Sow's message of "Tue, 28 Apr 1998 13:43:14 +0000" Message-ID: <87yawp7bsn.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.3/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mariam Sow writes: > i have a big problme.I want to download BSD.I have a 486 computer with win95. > On the web site,they told me to downlaod the boot disk.I did > Now what do i di nest?I tried to open the boot disk,it opended it with > wordpad!! > What should i do?Please help There is a file called README.TXT in the directory where you downloaded the floppy image from--read it. Also read http://freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.html, especially the section on installing freebsd. -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message