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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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