From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 1 22:27:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ucsu.Colorado.EDU (ucsu.Colorado.EDU [128.138.129.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47AD514C03 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 22:27:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doranj@ucsu.Colorado.EDU) Received: (from doranj@localhost) by ucsu.Colorado.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3/ITS-5.0/standard) id XAA14904; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 23:27:03 -0600 (MDT) From: Jonathon Doran Message-Id: <199907020527.XAA14904@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> Subject: Re: I am new... To: arntz@surfree.com (Jeremy J. Arntz) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 23:27:03 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <000e01bec447$805181e0$a75e1b26@default> from "Jeremy J. Arntz" at Jul 2, 99 00:58:05 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] 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 Please don't send HTML to the list... > > I have another intel based system and I would like to try FreeBSD. I = > was wondering because that system currently has no modem or operating = > system. 1st can I download freebsd on my win 98 system and make the = > discs needed from this machine. 2nd what has to be on the machine to = > install freebsd? DOS? email me if you can help! If you had a CD burner you could make the CDs, but I am assuming that this isn't the case. You can create floppies on your Win98 system if that works for you. You'll need to download the contents of "bin" from an archive site like ftp.cdrom.com I estimate this requires about 20 1.44M floppies (storing 5 files per floppy) On ftp.cdrom.com the current release's bin directory is at /pub/FreeBSD/3.2-RELEASE/bin Download these files (bin.*) to your Windows machine and create floppies per the directions in the handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/x616.html These instructions will walk you through formatting and creating the floppies you'll need for installation. You'll also need to pull down the images of the boot floppies. Again, the handbook walks you through this. To answer your second question, you don't need anything on the new machine. Just have your drives low-level formatted (which is usually the case for a new drive). Follow the handbook instructions and all will be well. Jon Doran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message