From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 20 2: 4:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3995737B401 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 02:04:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91D7643EDA for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 02:04:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id gBKA4jc20318 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 12:04:46 +0200 Message-Id: <200212201004.gBKA4jc20318@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 20 Dec 02 12:03:38 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 12:03:28 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: FTP installation from the floppies through ADSL modem with P In-reply-to: <3E02DCDD.29722C11@nospam.net> X-info: Headers changed by Barricade Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 11:03:25 +0200 > From: Asker > What do you think about changing GENERIC or just the kernel in installation > floppies in the future releases of FreeBSD? I think it will be very useful > because ADSL (therefore PPPoE protocol) is very frequent method of > connecting with Internet Service Provider in our days. ADSL doesn't necessarily mean PPPoE. At least here in Estonia PPPoE seems to be on its way out and the bulk of ISPs providing ADSL use just Ethernet without any PPP. > P.S. FTP installation use much less internet traffic than 4 huge ISO files' > downloading. There is no need to download 4 huge ISO files. All you really need is the one mini-ISO, ca 200 MB. -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * Those who can't write, write manuals. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message