From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 17 17:39:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.screaming.net (smtp.screaming.net [212.49.224.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E22C37B423 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 17:39:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lexx.my.domain (dyn31-ras35.screaming.net [212.188.130.31]) by smtp.screaming.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA25083 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 00:42:46 GMT From: John Murphy To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CD Installation Set Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 01:39:25 +0100 Organization: The Organisation Reply-To: bigotfo@bigfoot.com Message-ID: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.6/32.525 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Drew Donmoyer wrote: >Greetings. >As a newbie to FreeBSD I have a few questions. You've come to the right place though plain text wrapped ~75 preferred ;) >I understand that installation may be done by preparing floppy installs >that will use the ftp site directly. Yes; it worked for me quite intuitively, though it was through a = previously set up FreeBSD-3.2 LAN. >I am better equipped to do the install from the installation CDs but am >unable to get them immediately. You have to equate your online speed/charge against your patience. It wasn't a difficult choice for me as I have an un-metered product in the = uk! >Can I make my own Installation CD Set by downloading from your ftp site? >Exactly how do I do this? You could go for the entire .iso of the recently released and = exceptionally good FreeBSD-4.1, but it's probably 650Mbyte or so. Or recreate the contents of /bin to a CDRom or DOS filesystem and install from there. (You'll need the two floppies though and I personally haven't tried the DOS method) Or you could just rawrite the two floppies and install from your nearest/ quickest ftp mirror. http://www.uk.freebsd.org/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html You could even fit the files from /bin onto floppies and do it the really hard way. = ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.1-RELEASE/bin/ >Will this be identical to the CD Install Set you sell? The disks you buy would hopefully be distributed by = WalnutCreek/CDRom.com/ BSDi but distributions vary. I don't know if the downloadable .iso would boot the same as the 'proper' CD distro. HTH John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message