From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 12 22:41:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62EC214DB7 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 22:41:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from charon@freethought.org) Received: from c40948-a ([24.1.7.99]) by mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19990813054128.OZAX8807.mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com@c40948-a>; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 22:41:28 -0700 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990812224125.00a8e100@mail> X-Sender: tuathadedanann@mail X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 22:41:25 -0700 To: "Brooks, Reginald P." , "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" From: charon@freethought.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <170261B725E5D111A81C00A0C9B411BE01F35EE8@pwcntexch1.pwcpea rl.navy.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 07:03 PM 8/12/99 -1000, Brooks, Reginald P. wrote: >I have been hearing a little about FreeBSD so I decided to give it try. I >visited your home page and tried to figure out how to download the OS. Your >instructions lead from ftp to ftp with list upon list of files to download >but I could not identify any file that appeared to actually contain the >basic OS or kernal. > >For example. If I am on the following page, >ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable >which file or files would I download and install to provide the basic OS? >Your assistance will be greatly appreciated. > >Thank you >Reggie I agree with previous posts saying that you might want to consider CD's. I used FreeBSD for 2 years without ever touching a CD, but I think I would have picked up on it quite a bit faster if I'd had the CD's and _The_Complete_FreeBSD_. However, if you _do_ want to download via FTP (the truly free way): You'll want to look at http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ26.html and http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/x620.html. Basically, you just need /bin to get a system running, but you'll probably want to look into downloading /manpages, /compat* (for compatability with other versions of FreeBSD), some of the /src files (syss* to be specific) so you can make a custom kernel, /ports so you can use the great ports system for intalling programs, and /floppies so you can make the boot floppies. Good luck! -Charon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message