From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 22 17:14:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA11006 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:14:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA10989 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 00:14:43 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA28312; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:13:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:13:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Tomas Marklund cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation over modem. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Tomas Marklund wrote: > If I install FreeBSD over modem, how many bytes does it download? I'd like > to estimate the time it would take. I WILL install FreeBSD this summer > (I'm buying a new computer and I just have to have some UNIX OS on it). It's several megabytes. The bin distribution and the boot floppy image (one 1.44MB file) are the big culprits. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message