From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 30 16:10:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EB7037B405 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:10:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA00191; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:04:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:04:23 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Sunny Xie Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How much is the file size of the .bin directory(using floppies installation)? In-Reply-To: <000401c161d9$afc8bb50$2b619fd3@sunny> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Sunny Xie wrote: > I want to install freeBSD japanese 4.1.1 release on my pc98 NEC laptop from floppies (don't > have a CD-ROM/modem). May I know approximately how much is the file size in total( > as the doc said, the .bin directory) before I download it? Your reply is much appreciated. > > Best Regards > Sunny Xie > > I think you probably mean the bin "distribution", the one essential distribution to install. It includes files that get installed in a number of directories, not just /bin. It's about 80MB (that's a lot of floppies, but doable) for a pc. I'd assume it's about the same for pc98. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: mall.daemonnews.org and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message