From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 17 13:46:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pike.netdoor.com (netdoor.com [208.137.128.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F1F337B403 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:46:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@katana.amberskogg.dns2go.com) Received: from katana.amberskogg.dns2go.com (port112.tup.netdoor.com [208.137.140.176]) by pike.netdoor.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA01689; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 15:46:38 -0500 (CDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Jim Couch Reply-To: jcouch@netdoor.com Organization: AmberSkogg Development To: "Roberto Ruffinengo" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: obtaining FreeBSD Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 15:46:34 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <200107170751.JAA30191@posta.teoresi.it> In-Reply-To: <200107170751.JAA30191@posta.teoresi.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01071715463400.41137@katana.amberskogg.dns2go.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The easiest way I have found to get FreeBSD over the internet is to download the kern and mfsroot images and the utility to write them to floppies and then do an ftp install. You cannot merely copy the flp files to a floppy you must use the writing tool for them to work. I have used this method 4 or 5 times with 4.3 while waiting for my CD set from wind River. Jim On Tuesday 17 July 2001 02:50 am, Roberto Ruffinengo wrote: > Hi all, > i am experiencing some difficulties in getting FreeBSD from the net. > the 4.3 ISO image seems to be broken . I have downloaded it but the > md5 signature does't correspond whith the one i downloaded from the > server. I tried two times. > -- More than any time in history, mankind now faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly. -- Woody Allen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message