From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 9 11:24:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA27482 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 11:24:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.jorsm.com (mercury.jorsm.com [207.112.128.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA27470 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 11:24:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jer@jorsm.com) Received: from localhost (jer@localhost) by mercury.jorsm.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA13867; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 13:24:50 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 13:24:50 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeremy Shaffner To: Rafie cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Availability & Cost In-Reply-To: <35A43E2E.4C1AC612@innocent.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Rafie wrote: > Hi, I am interested in trying FreeBSD. The CD from Walnut Creek is too > expensive and I have been downloading it at home now for over a week. > It seems like I will never get a chance to install it. Is there less > expensive way to get the CD? > Then you're downloading way too much. See http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ21.html. Once you have a running system, you can do a post-install configuration to add distributions or ports & packages. You can also get 1 (one) FreeBSD CD-ROM from www.cheapbytes.com for ~$5. It's nearly identical to the WalnutCreek CD #1 except that a few distributions (not sure which, go to the site and find out) and International language support has been removed to make room for adding some packages. Even still..Walnut Creek deserves your support. If you can manage it, the 4 CD set is still the best way to go. -===================================================================- Jeremy Shaffner JORSM Internet Senior Technical Support Northwest Indiana's Premium jer@jorsm.com Internet Service Provider support@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com -===================================================================- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message