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From: Rudy Gireyev <rgireyev@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Downloading FreeBSD
To: Led Duk <LedDuk@aol.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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There are several ways to install FreeBSD, as covered in the handbook
and INSTALL.TXT. The two methods you are requesting info on are
installing via FTP and installing from a DOS partition. If you install
using the FTP method you don't need to know which directories to
download. Using the DOS partition method you do. Here is the breakdown:

>From the 2.2.5-RELEASE directory

INSTALL.TXT - A must to install
/bin        - A must to install
/floppies   - A must to install
/tools      - A must to install

/manpages   - A must to keep sane

/XF86331    - X windows
/doc        - various documentation that for some
              reason excludes handbook and FAQ

The rest is on the as needed bases.

Rudy.

P.S. We should probably shoot this over to the doc team since this
questions is asked very often.

---Led Duk <LedDuk@aol.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>   I am apparently quite confused concerning downloading Free BSD. I
have made
> a bootdisk as instructed. I have run the installation program
contained within
> it. I am trying to download thr User w/X files. How in the heck do I
get this
> installation program to download the required files from the
download site and
> install them to a Drive I have setup for BSD? I'd just download the
files onto
> my DOS drive and install from there but really have no idea which
files I need
> to download to set up the User w/X Windows configuration. I have
hunted for
> documentation concerning this but have found no that explains which
file to
> download for a specific setup.
>     I'd really prefer to do an automatic download thru my AOL IP but
can't
> figure out how to do that.
> 
> Thanks,
> Curt
> 
> LedDuk@aol.com
> 

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