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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)?
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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.
> 

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