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Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 20:27:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ken Marsh <durang@u.washington.edu>
To: silenus <silenus@alaska.net>
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Subject: What to download for min install
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What you want to download is in FreeBSD/2.1.5-RELEASE/bin/*
put them in C:\Freebsd\bin\*.*

Then grab FreeBSD/2.1.5-RELEASE/floppies/*
put them in C:\Freebsd\floppies\*.*

and while you're at it grab FreeBSD/2.1.5-RELEASE/manpages/*
and put them in C:\Freebsd\manpages\*.*

This will take hours to download. The manpages are "optional" but you will
need them desparately, so best to get them right away.

Make the boot floppy as per documentation you've seen, and use the
"Install from a DOS partition" option when you are doing the install.

Ken Marsh

On Fri, 26 Jul 1996, silenus wrote:

> I've been reading, studying your net pages for over a day. I can't figure
> out just what it is that I have to download to get a very minimal system
> going? There are masses of files all over the place. All kinds of
> documentation too, but nothing tells me what it is that I have to ftp. I
> have already ftped your boot.flp. By booting on it, it gets me to the
> place where I have to install something, but I have nothing to install.
> The reason I have nothing to install is because I have no idea what to
> download to install.
>
> It seems to me that the best way to go is to download ?something? from
> one of your directories into a DOS directory that I've set up. Then to
> use the boot.flp to install from there. If there are specific files in
> specific directories that I have to download what are they?
>
> Bob James
>