From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 29 7:47:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu (weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu [152.1.207.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F6F3150C8 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 07:47:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu) Received: (from fbsdbob@localhost) by weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA17619; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:52:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fbsdbob) From: FreeBSD Bob Message-Id: <199910291452.KAA17619@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu> Subject: Re: What? In-Reply-To: <19991029033304.2692.rocketmail@web1606.mail.yahoo.com> from "don't haveone" at "Oct 28, 1999 08:33:04 pm" To: hacked666@yahoo.com (don't haveone) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:52:08 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 If you have a remote install and a poor line, I might suggest that you do a CD install, if possible, or, if you have a dos box handy that can download, do a floppy install. It will take around 25 floppies, for a bin/manpages/doc install, but it is doable, and it works fine for remote installs. After that, you can ftp to fill out the machine. Email me privately for details, since most of it is in the install guide, if memory serves me correctly today. If you have a poor line, webserving will not be fun. Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message