From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 14 12:54:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1506437B69F for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 12:54:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mark8 (hutch-253.hutchtel.net [206.10.67.181]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id OAA00769; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 14:54:08 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <002501c07e7c$d19018a0$6100000a@vladsempire.net> From: "Josh Paetzel" To: "Mark B. Withers" , "freebsd-questions" References: <20010114152641.B283@arrakis.desert-power.org> Subject: Re: FTP install of FreeBSD Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 14:53:31 -0800 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 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark B. Withers" To: "freebsd-questions" Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 12:25 PM Subject: FTP install of FreeBSD > I have a question. > > Has anybody done this? > Yes...people do ftp installs all the time. > How does it work? > To make a long story short, you boot the freebsd install program off floppy and then the install program connects to a ftp site and downloads what it needs to do the install...see the freebsd handbook at www.freebsd.org/handbook for more details. > Does it take a long time with a DSL connection? > To do a full install downloads about 600 megs or so. I am guessing that is about 4 hours or so on a typical home DSL. > I've never tried it before, but sure am tempted with an older version > of FreeBSD. Sendmail is nagging me. heh heh > I would go ahead and do it. The ability to do an FTP install is one of the many great features of freebsd. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message