Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 06:50:22 +0100 From: "William S." <wilby98@yahoo.com> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How much is the file size of the .bin directory(using floppies installation)? Message-ID: <20011031065022.A1384@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10110301600140.99930-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> References: <000401c161d9$afc8bb50$2b619fd3@sunny> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10110301600140.99930-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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Instead of using floppies, why not create a DOS partition on your laptop and put the /bin distribution there. This method is explained in the online FreeBSD Handbook in section 2.13 "Creating your own installation media. Bill Amsterdam, NL On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 04:04:23PM -0800, Annelise Anderson wrote: > 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. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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