From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Feb 21 17:19:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from gamma.aei.ca (unknown [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A365011D28 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 17:19:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (ppp-110-73.mtl.aei.ca [207.107.110.73]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA06549; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 20:19:17 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36D0B05E.3FC5812D@aei.ca> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 20:18:22 -0500 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: fr, en, zh MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Paris Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WHat do I download? References: <199902211045.FAA14245@smtp11.bellglobal.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Richard Paris wrote: > > I really want to download of the latest FreeBSD of the FTP site and just > downloaded about 700MB worth...But what did I just download? There are so > many hard links etc.... Isn't there just one directory that has the whole > cd-rom or cds there? What dirs do I have to download to get the whole > thing? I don't want to burn it onto CDROM only to find out that I am > missing files once I try and install it. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks > > LightSpeed. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message Hi 1) This is not the right list: ask on freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 2) You do not need to download everything. The better way to install FreeBSD is using two boot floppies that will fetch and install FreeBSD for you: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html Check "3. If you don't have a CDROM distribution then simply read ..." Thank You -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][French piss me off - Cartman, South Park] [The FreeBSD User Guide][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/freebsd/] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message