From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Sep 17 14:42:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from dfsi.net (mail.dfsi.net [204.49.105.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4A3814D3B for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 14:42:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glen@dfsi.net) Received: from glen1 [204.49.105.215] by dfsi.net (SMTPD32-5.01) id A5FD2020128; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 16:43:25 CDT Message-ID: <026e01bf0154$0653d060$8b6931cc@dfsi.net> Reply-To: "Glen Rushing" From: "Glen Rushing" To: References: <001b01bf01a4$6bfefac0$827e03cb@apana.org.au> Subject: Another newbies list Inquiry Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 16:31:36 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org What is the consensus here on the best way to acquire FreeBsd? Download it off the FTP site or order the CDROM distribution? If downloading is the best answer, is there a LIST of which files are needed to download? I looked at the FTP site and wasn't sure WHICH files I needed to download. I'll be installing initially over a WIN 98 machine, then later over my WINNT machines if all works out well enough. Don't TAR & FEATHER me now but I am currently a WINNT user as an ISP and am looking into FreeBsd since it appears to require much less RAM/RESOURCES etc. Direct comments about the pros and cons would be appreciated, but please be serious so I can confirm what I have already been reading about FreeBSD. Thanks to all in advance! Glen Rushing DFSI, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message