Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 16:47:59 -0400 From: "Stephen A. Derdau" <sderdau@bit-net.com> To: "Ben Smithurst" <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>, "Steve" <bagpipe@itis.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: download Message-ID: <001601bdf2fc$f1643ac0$c57a8018@dianeman.ne.mediaone.net>
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Should take as long as it takes to download !!! :-) When it's done it's done ;-) I just download RedHat Linux and it took 2 days over a 33.6 modem dial in connection Neve do that again . Now I have cable access . Not sure which machine to use as my gateway , RedHat or my FreeBSD !! Decisions....... :-( -----Original Message----- From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Steve <bagpipe@itis.com>; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Thursday, October 08, 1998 2:30 PM Subject: Re: download >Steve wrote: > >> How long will it take [to download] ? > >How the hell do we answer this when we don't know how fast your modem >is? Also, how much do you want to download? If you just get bin and >It didn't take me too long... > >The full source tree for 3.0-BETA is <fx: waiting for du to finish...> >215 megs. (This took quite a while to checkout over a 28.8k modem...) > >> What do I need on the boot disk? > >Just download the boot.flp file and copy it to a floppy with fdimage.exe >(in the flopppies and tools folders respectively). > >Overall, you need to get > >bin/* >manpages/* (you don't _need_ this, but I couldn't live without them) >src/ssys.* (ditto, this is for building your own kernel) >floppies/boot.flp >tools/fdimage.exe > >All these relative to ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.7-RELEASE/, >or your nearest mirror. It's probably worth waiting a few days though >until 3.0 is released. > >(some of the above may be wrong; just look in ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD >and use common sense) > >> Will this work with Windows os's (boot loaders)? > >Probably. > >-- >Ben Smithurst : ben@scientia.demon.co.uk : http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ > >PGP: 0x99392F7D - 3D 89 87 42 CE CA 93 4C 68 32 0E D5 36 05 3D 16 > http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ben/pgp-key.html (or use keyservers) > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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