Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 07:38:14 -0800 From: Chris <eagletree@hughes.net> To: FreeBSD-Questions Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Regarding DVD/CD request Message-ID: <673D057E-32AC-4B86-90F3-F51EDD483591@hughes.net> In-Reply-To: <508fd0770902280049y1f31721fp306f1fc65383f76c@mail.gmail.com> References: <508fd0770902280049y1f31721fp306f1fc65383f76c@mail.gmail.com>
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On Feb 28, 2009, at 12:49 AM, RAMASUBRAMANIAN VENKITESWARAN wrote: > Sir/Madam, > I am a student studying in an Indian University.I > recently heard of FREE BSD Operating system.To have a try on the > Operating > system I tried to download it.But,I could not download the Operating > system,since it is bulky.Can you send DVD/CDs of Free BSD by mail? > Please Reply. > __________________ Yes, it is "bulky" for some of us. Not as bulky as an uncontrolled auto update from Apple or Microsoft but still bulky. Dial-up is most likely impractical and satellite risky. One has to presume that you need nearly the entire installation and whether you download the small disk and then add other installations or just download the entire disk one, you still end up using more bandwidth than a satellite connection wants to give you within a 24 hour period. On some satellite ISPs, it's practically "impossible" to get FreeBSD downloaded if you have much other additional communication present on your connection. I have gone through the pain of using ftp reget to download 200MB per day to get a new complete installation CD. This avoids overrunning your quota but if you forget it's running, the provider will shut you down for the day and most likely when throttled, your download will eventually fail (at least with Hughes, communications become unreliable when they throttle your connections). You may extend the throttled time out for days if you leave the download running after they apply the limits. A good approach is to purchase the CD from FreeBSD Mall or one of the places shown on the http://www.freebsd.org/where.html page. I have done this before and it takes "about" the same amount of time for shipping as screwing around with reget within FTP. It also supports FreeBSD. Once you have this CD, you install and then immediately set up your cvsup to upgrade the sources with whatever has changed since the CD was made and then rebuild the world as shown in the Handbook. Upgrading the sources and ports from your base CD may take a day depending on your hardware but I've never blown my quota doing it this way (versus forgetting I have the ftp running trying to download an installation disk). From then on, you just keep cvsup'ing across major and minor releases and bandwidth throttles aren't an issue if you are careful. Major releases will obviously use more bandwidth but it's not been bad with cvsup. I've done several upgrades from 5 to 6, 6 to 7 etc all on the satellite without blowing my "fair" use policy. By contrast, I can't do one Apple upgrade for 10.5, it's quite hopeless at 675 unregulated MBs. If you use a large number of large ports the experience might be different. I don't use X windows and I would bet those downloads are nasty during port upgrades. I know of no solution for that if you are saddled with an unreliable ISP. _____________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > " >
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