From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 29 19:18:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA04165 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 19:18:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA04135 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 19:17:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.interlog.com (root@smtp.interlog.com [198.53.145.6]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id LAA17840 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 11:26:50 -0700 Received: from gold.interlog.com (kligs@gold.interlog.com [198.53.145.2]) by smtp.interlog.com (8.7.4/8.7.4) with SMTP id OAA16847; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 14:09:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 14:15:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Kligerman To: James Raynard cc: dixey-family@u-net.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD! (fwd) In-Reply-To: <199606282307.XAA06543@jraynard.demon.co.uk> 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 Fri, 28 Jun 1996, James Raynard wrote: > > I would like to Download FREEBSD (the latest version) and I can't seem > > to find 1 compressed file to get hold of it..... > > It doesn't come as a single compressed file. The simplest way to do it > is to download the boot.flp file from the floppies directory, use > rawrite.exe to make a boot floppy from it, and reboot with the floppy > in the drive. If you're connected to the Internet at the time, the > installation program will FTP down all the other files it needs. On this topic, when installing via FTP and using a Bitsurfr, ppp seems to core dump every time, not very far into the installation. Any way to get around this besides getting the CD? Thanks, Daniel Kligerman kligs@interlog.com