Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 14:00:41 +0530 (IST) From: eswar@idc.tandem.com (Eswaran Srinivasan) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: eswar@idc.tandem.com (Eswaran Srinivasan) Subject: Reg. BSD packages ... Message-ID: <9710160830.AA20102@pelican.isd>
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Hi, This may be a very generic question. But unfortunately, I could not find this information anywhere on the web and so I am sending this mail. I wish to get Free BSD packages (binary packages) and install on a PC. I do NOT want the BSD sources. 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. Most of the references are to the BSD ports/applications. I want the BSD binary packages. 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 ? Thanks - Eswaran Srinivasan \\|// (o ~) -------oOO--(_)--OOo----------------------------------------------------------- Eswaran Srinivasan | Contact : Wipro Infotech Group - Global R&D | Phone : 91-80-5522296, Ext: 3076 26, Chamundi Complex, | E-Mail : eswar@wipinfo.soft.net Begur-Hongasandra Village | eswar@idc.tandem.com Bommanahalli, Bangalore - 560 068 | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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