From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 12 13:59:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA27347 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 13:59:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA27274 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 13:59:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-159.laker.net [208.0.233.59]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id QAA02886; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:58:38 -0500 Message-Id: <199811122158.QAA02886@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "Olivier Onorato" Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:54:33 -0500 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Compatibility and CD location Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 12 Nov 1998 14:12:58 -0500, Olivier Onorato wrote: >Dear sir/madam, I am interested in trying Freebsd. I will need to have the >equivalent of Sun Microsystems X11 interactive unix. From what I read on >your web page, it looks like your OS will support some kind of X window. Is >that correct? Yes, we have XFree86. >My next question is where do you get the install CDs from? Also, the >computer I am planning to install the system on does not have a CD-ROM. Is >it possible to break the files from a different computer using a zip drive? You can get the CDs from www.cdrom.com and they have a helpful book too. You could also install over the Internet, see: See http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook7.html#7 Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message