From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 7 07:51:59 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id HAA22478 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 07:51:59 -0800 Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA22472 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 07:51:53 -0800 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA01020; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 16:45:00 +0100 Message-Id: <199511071545.QAA01020@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: getting distribution off ftp site To: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 16:44:59 +0100 (MET) Cc: keithl@netrunner.net, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Richard Wackerbarth" at Nov 7, 95 08:05:43 am From: Christoph Kukulies Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 727 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. He said he had a shell account from which I understand the machine itself is not on the net. > > ---- > Richard Wackerbarth > rkw@dataplex.net > > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de