Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 11:28:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Shawn Hughes <dethnet@clnk.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: d/l freebsd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980904112727.15395C-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19980904175433.0068cee8@mail.clnk.com>
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I never download like that.. the boot floppy can downlad and install at the same time. which can save you all the work of working out what to get... (Of course you CAN download it all and have the boot/install fetch it locally, but I don't generally do that.) julian On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Shawn Hughes wrote: > At 01:36 PM 9/4/98 +0100, you wrote: > >Shawn Hughes wrote: > > > >> and by the way what happened to 2.2.6 that was on the ftp site? i was d/ling > >> it and came home from work to find it was gone. if 2.2.7 is as stable as > >> 2.2.6 then thats fine....i have heard great things of freeBSD 2.2.6 and how > >> stable it is....thats the whole reason to why i wanted 2.2.6 . > > > >Well, it's quite likely that 2.2.7 will be better than 2.2.6, since I > >beleive it will have been extensively tested before being classed as a > >-RELEASE version. I could be wrong, but I'm sure it's damn stable, and > >better than any Microsoft shit. > > > >(3.0-CURRENT is actually stable enough for me. <rant> Assuming, that is, > >that your CPU fan isn't dodgy, and doesn't decide to stop stone dead > >and let the damn CPU overheat and bring the whole system down. :-( > >Better go buy a new fan... </rant>) > > > >-- > >Ben Smithurst : ben@scientia.demon.co.uk : http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ > > > >PGP: 0x99392F7D - 3D 89 87 42 CE CA 93 4C 68 32 0E D5 36 05 3D 16 > > http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ben/pgp-key.html (or use keyservers) > >___________________________________________________________________________ > ____________ > ok thanx i appreciate the help.....ohh BTW how many cds is the 2.2.7 since m > d/ling this heh....kinda need to know where to break it up at....i think i > agree with ya on it being better than MS stuff.....i have had too many damn > crashes in 95...the KAPOOOOOOOOOW im down and rebooting...or probably > reinstalling yet once again.AND that DAMN Inet Explorer....YUK!!!!! > > > > 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
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