From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 16 01:39:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA16172 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 01:39:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from suntan.tandem.com (suntan.tandem.com [192.216.221.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id BAA16163 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 01:39:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eswar@idc.tandem.com) Received: from adm.loc201.tandem.com by suntan.tandem.com (8.6.12/suntan5.970212) for id BAA23253; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 01:39:21 -0700 Received: from idc.tandem.com ([172.31.40.11]) by adm.loc201.tandem.com (4.1/6main.940209) id AA14429; Thu, 16 Oct 97 01:39:15 PDT Received: from pelican.isd (pelican.idc.tandem.com) by idc.tandem.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA24145; Thu, 16 Oct 97 14:10:47 IST Received: by pelican.isd (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA20102; Thu, 16 Oct 97 14:00:41 IST From: eswar@idc.tandem.com (Eswaran Srinivasan) Message-Id: <9710160830.AA20102@pelican.isd> Subject: Reg. BSD packages ... To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 14:00:41 +0530 (IST) Cc: eswar@idc.tandem.com (Eswaran Srinivasan) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=