From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Sep 17 18:33:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from staff.cs.usyd.edu.au (staff.cs.usyd.edu.au [129.78.8.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BBAC114F6D for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 18:33:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mhenry@pgrad.cs.usyd.edu.au) Subject: Re: Another newbies list Inquiry To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 11:33:30 +1000 (EST) From: "Michael Henry" Cc: glen@dfsi.net Expires: Mon, 20 Sep 99 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1326 Message-Id: <19990918013341.BBAC114F6D@hub.freebsd.org> 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 this is your first time, get the CDROM. That way you can get a copy of "The Complete FreeBSD" while you're at it. > If > downloading is the best answer, is there a LIST of which files are needed to > download? This info is not needed; the install program takes care of all that. > I looked at the FTP site and wasn't sure WHICH files I needed to > download. Look at the Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html It talks about the two files you need to get, which then need to be dumped onto floppies with fdimage.exe. > 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. Tar and feather? I usually tar and gzip :) > 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. There is nothing to say. Try it for yourself; that's the only way you'll be convinced. > > 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