From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 29 0:38: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11D0C14FDE for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 00:38:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA08085; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 00:59:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 00:59:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: "don't haveone" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What? In-Reply-To: <19991029033304.2692.rocketmail@web1606.mail.yahoo.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 Thu, 28 Oct 1999, don't haveone wrote: > OK, I'll try again. What I'm looking for is an OS that > can be used like Win 98.2, but is more stable and less > likely to crash, or freeze. I would also like to be > able to use it as a Web server if I want to where I > could serve up my own Web site. Also, I have the 2 > floppies to install FreeBSD, and have tried to > download it, but I have a somewhat unreliable > connection and was wondering how I would download FBSD > from the ftp site. Thanks again. > Ronald You can download parts of the FreeBSD distribution from the ftp site then later install from a DOS partition: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/x619.html go down to section 2.2.3 of this web page. Also, if you choose "minimal installation" when installing off the net, you can install more stuff after the machine is up and running. I would suggest also getting the 'manpages' distribution along with 'minimal'a so you get the ppp manpages. good luck, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message