Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 17:09:50 -0500 From: Kevin Bockman <isoft@fcg.net> To: Brent Kyle <bkyle@sfu.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD .ZIP or something Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970919170950.0077472c@fcg.net> In-Reply-To: <199709191754.KAA25019@fraser>
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At 10:54 AM 9/19/97 -0700, Brent Kyle wrote: >Hi. > > I want to install Free BSD. At school, I have a high-speed internet >connection, and I want to download the latest stable version, copy it onto >floppies and take it home to install. > > I can't seem to find any kind of 'one file' .ZIP archive or something. >Looking on your www.freebsd.org, I found the various release directories >containing all the files as they appear on the CD-Roms, but is there a >single .ZIP file I could download to get it all at once? I don't want to >have to FTP each file seperately, and make my own directory structure to >put them in. > > Do you know what I mean? Is there such a thing? Do you have any >advice for what I want to do? > > Any information you could give me would be great. Thanks! > >-Brent. > there is nothing like that, all you really need to start with is rawrite.exe (or fdimage.exe, but i prefer rawrite since its older and ive gotten to use it a lot longer) and boot.flp.. check www.freebsd.org (you may install by ftp unlike linsux)
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