From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Dec 28 7:54:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6596B37B401 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 07:54:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from scanmail3.cableone.net (scanmail3.cableone.net [24.116.0.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C340143EB2 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 07:54:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lute@cableone.net) Received: from scanmail3.cableone.net ([10.116.0.123]) by scanmail3.cableone.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Sat, 28 Dec 2002 08:53:12 -0700 Received: from scanmail3.cableone.net [24.116.0.123] by scanmail3.cableone.net (SMTPD32-7.04) id A8E3633400D2; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 08:53:07 -0700 Received: from agnes (227-51.siocpe.cableone.net [24.116.227.51]) by mail.cableone.net with SMTP (MailShield v2.04 - WIN32 Jul 17 2001 17:12:42); Sat, 28 Dec 2002 08:53:07 -0700 Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 09:50:57 -0600 From: Lute Mullenix To: "Nikolay M. Pilyuk" Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need help installing FreeBSD Message-Id: <20021228095057.751ae8ce.lute@cableone.net> In-Reply-To: <1503723687.20021228134909@fpm.kubsu.ru> References: <20021227215602.55090.qmail@web21408.mail.yahoo.com> <763565875.20021228134632@fpm.kubsu.ru> <1503723687.20021228134909@fpm.kubsu.ru> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.6claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SMTP-HELO: agnes X-SMTP-MAIL-FROM: lute@cableone.net X-SMTP-PEER-INFO: 227-51.siocpe.cableone.net [24.116.227.51] Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 28 Dec 2002 13:49:09 +0300 "Nikolay M. Pilyuk" pondered: > Hello Venkat, hello, All! > > Saturday, December 28, 2002, 12:56:02 AM, you wrote: > {snip} > Discs 2,3,4 are only a software collections, you can download them, if > you want or if the Internet bandwidth is cheap for you. As for myself, > I'm happy with disc1. :) > One other option and it's the way I do it is to just download the floppy images and boot from floppy, then install the rest of the system via ftp site. I installed 4.3 from CD, but that was the last one, of course I was still on dial-up at that time. On the other hand if I had a CD burner.... Lute ********************** Dual Boot: * FreeBSD 4.7 RELEASE * Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 * ********************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message