From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 14 15:23: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ren.sasknow.com (ren.sasknow.com [207.195.92.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A92237B402 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 15:22:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by ren.sasknow.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA48703; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 17:22:35 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 17:22:35 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: "Mark B. Withers" Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: FTP install of FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20010114152641.B283@arrakis.desert-power.org> Message-ID: Organization: SaskNow Technologies [www.sasknow.com] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark B. Withers wrote to freebsd-questions: > I have a question. > > Has anybody done this? Weekly :-) > How does it work? Very well! > Does it take a long time with a DSL connection? If I'm only doing a single install, I typically only install the base system, ports, and a few sources and other small odds'n'ends during the actual install (takes about 1/2 hour to download and ungzip on a good day). Then, once the base system is installed and rebooted, and I have many virtual terminals to play with, I run /stand/sysinstall to start downloading X as well as the extra distributions and installing ports. While that's running, I go to another virtual terminal and start configuring everything else. If you have more time than I usually do, it is more straightforward to simply install and configure everything you want at once. > I've never tried it before, but sure am tempted with an older version > of FreeBSD. Sendmail is nagging me. heh heh > > Mark > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Ryan Thompson Network Administrator, Accounts SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message