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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Eswaran Srinivasan <eswar@idc.tandem.com>
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Subject: Re: Reg. BSD packages ...
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On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Eswaran Srinivasan wrote:

> I wish to get Free BSD packages (binary packages) and install on a
> PC. I do NOT want the BSD sources.

OK, perfectly reasonable.

> I have a new PC on which I wish to install free BSD. I could extract
> the boot floppy image through the net. It works fine also. I could
> boot the system with this floppy. After this it asks for the installation
> media.
> 
> I thought of ftp-ing the minimal basic packages (binary packages)
> which may include C compiler, X windows etc. But, I am not able to
> find the site where I can get this.

If you select `ftp' as the install media, it will give you a menu of many
possible alternatives.  ftp.freebsd.org is the standard default.

> Can you please let me know where I can get all the packages ? I
> want to ftp those packages, put them on a SCSI tape and install.
> Any idea how many such packages are there (I guess it is around 10) 
> and how much space is required for ftp-ing ?

Doing it by tape is a bit trickier since it involves some setup.
Reference http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html for more
information.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major