From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 19 15:08:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA12564 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 15:08:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.fcg.net (root@mail.fcg.net [206.31.252.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA12559 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 15:08:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from second.puis.net (ip55.p.fcg.net [206.31.252.55]) by mail.fcg.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA00366; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 17:08:32 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970919170950.0077472c@fcg.net> X-Sender: isoft@fcg.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 17:09:50 -0500 To: Brent Kyle , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Kevin Bockman Subject: Re: FreeBSD .ZIP or something In-Reply-To: <199709191754.KAA25019@fraser> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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)