From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 30 11:21:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA01947 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:21:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA01932 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:21:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA17912; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:21:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:21:18 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Tim J. Laird" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp files from mirror site(s) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Tim J. Laird wrote: > I want to be able to FTP the "cdrom" off of one of the mirror sites in order > to install FreeBSD off of a DOS partition. Where do I need to go to get the > installation files? And what files do I need to FTP to my local machine? You can get the files you need from ftp.freebsd.org and the various mirror sites (ftp2.freebsd.org and so forth). I suggest grabbing the following at minumum. FreeBSD File Requirements: REQUIRED: floppies/boot.flp (boot floppy image) tools/fdimage.exe (DOS bootfloppy image writer) bin/* RECOMMENDED: manpages/ compat*/ doc/ (at your discretion) src/ssys.* Read http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html before getting too far, the files need to be placed in C:\FREEBSD, maintaining the directory heirarchy present on the ftp site. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major