From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 30 1:11:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A119337B424 for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 01:11:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mj@isy.liu.se) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f4U8BO903334; Wed, 30 May 2001 10:11:24 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 10:11:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson To: Sayaninawaz@aol.com Subject: RE: Need to Get one freeBSD. Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 30-May-01 Sayaninawaz@aol.com wrote: > Hello Sir/Madam, > > I have tried a lot to download Freebsd Opeating system but I couldnt > undernstand your downloading processure or I might be going through wrong > procesure. Given that you have a fast internet link and a network interface card: Make two floppies per instructions in ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.3-RELEASE/floppies/README.TXT You will end up with two 1.44Meg floppies with kern.flp and mfsroot.flp on them. Do NOT copy the flp-files onto the floppies you MUST use the fdimage.exe program located under ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.3-RELEASE/tools Insert the kern-floppy and reboot your machine. Insert mfsroot floppy when prompted. Often you can skip the 'visual configuration' part and just let it boot the system for you. You should then select the Standard install and follow instructions. > Please I need to get one free sample CD of FreeBSD if it is without any > mailing charge I will realy appreciate that. There are no sample CD's. Either you can burn one yourself with the iso-image ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.3-install.iso or better still buy a complete distribution from www.freebsdmall.org. It is MUCH easier to use the CD than using modem to get the files. I would definately recommend you to get the 4 CD's, just once anyway, since they are crammed with helpful files. Not to mention the rescue (fixit) cd which has helped me in the past. The cost of the CD's is very tiny indeed compared to what you get. > Thanks for you precious time, You're welcome. /M > Yours Truely, > Nawaz Sayani. > > My Mailing adress is : > > 245 Congaree Rd. > Park Haywood Appartment, > Apt#1110 > Greenville,SC > 29607 > > ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message