From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 7 06:05:48 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id GAA19194 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 06:05:48 -0800 Received: from lobster.dataplex.net ([199.183.109.243]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA19189 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 06:05:45 -0800 Received: from [199.183.109.242] (COD.DATAPLEX.NET [199.183.109.242]) by lobster.dataplex.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA12549; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 08:05:39 -0600 X-Sender: rkw@shark.dataplex.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 08:05:43 -0600 To: keith leonard From: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Subject: Re: getting distribution off ftp site Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 7:49 AM 11/7/95, keith leonard wrote: >HELP!! >How do I retreive the files I need from your (or a mirror sites) computer >to my servers hardrive so that I can download them to my MSDOS partition >and install FreeBSD. Is the machine on the net? If so, rather than placing the files on the msdos partition, use use the sysinstall program on the floppy to set up a FreeBSD partition on the hard disk. The files are then automatically fetched to that partition by the sysinstall itself. ---- Richard Wackerbarth rkw@dataplex.net