From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 13 10:17:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 603B514ECD for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 10:17:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA94451; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:17:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:17:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Brett Taylor To: "Jason C. Wells" Cc: Bryan Rutkowski , FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: your mail 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 Hi, On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Bryan Rutkowski wrote: > > >Hello i am interested in in getting your freebsd software but i can't > >seem to find where in your ftp directory to download it. > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html > > Get the floppy images from this page and away you go. :) Except as I pointed out yesterday, it doesn't say WHERE the floppies directories are (they're not linked and they don't say where to go look for them other than "floppies/kern.flp). This is an okay description for the CD-ROM people, but not so great for FTP installs. The docs now point you to a README which also doesn't give you a clear description of where the floppy images are. I don't think it's that hard to find them, but I've done X number of FTP installs (where X is some number > 15 now) and know what to look for. To grab the floppies go to: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/3.3-RELEASE/floppies/ and grab the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp, then continue to follow the instructions given above. I guess I should stop complaining about the docs and submit a change so I don't have to keep giving this answer. :-) > Thank You, | http://students.washington.edu/jcwells ^ Don't you need a "/" here? | :-) Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message