From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 9 13:26:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (fedde.littleton.co.us [216.17.174.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DDCC37B867 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 13:26:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost.fedde.littleton.co.us [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.10.0.Beta12/8.10.0.Beta10) with ESMTP id e29LQbm64484; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 14:26:37 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200003092126.e29LQbm64484@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: "Willett, Robbin, VBAVACO" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" From: Chris Fedde Subject: Re: downloading FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 09 Mar 2000 15:37:52 EST." <2C4D98F94C95D3119CBC0008C756110F8E5ADA@vbavaco.vba.va.gov> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 14:26:37 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Willett, Robbin, VBAVACO" writes: +--------------- | I have been trying to download, without success, FreeBSD from the internet. | From what I am reading, I need to download and make the two floppies, which | I did do. And then I would download the bin directory to floppies for use | during installation. | | However, I am having a hard time getting the bin directory. When I tried to | ftp to the site, there were no files under pub. I cannot find the bin | directory. Can you provide any furher instructions. +--------------- It sounds to me like you are attempting an FTP based network install? You will just need the two floppy images; kern.flp and mfsroot.flp. Boot from these and follow the bouncing ball through the rest of the menus. This has worked great for me many times. good luck chris __ Chris Fedde 303 773 9134 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message