From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Dec 29 13:41:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 113BB37B401 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 13:41:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14D5143ED1 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 13:41:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chrisfox8@attbi.com) Received: from WinBox.attbi.com (12-230-121-62.client.attbi.com[12.230.121.62]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with SMTP id <20021229214123002000fdobe>; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 21:41:24 +0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20021229134753.00adc560@mail.attbi.com> X-Sender: chrisfox8@mail.attbi.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 13:49:57 -0800 To: Lute Mullenix , "Nikolay M. Pilyuk" From: Chris Fox Subject: Re: Need help installing FreeBSD Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20021228095057.751ae8ce.lute@cableone.net> References: <1503723687.20021228134909@fpm.kubsu.ru> <20021227215602.55090.qmail@web21408.mail.yahoo.com> <763565875.20021228134632@fpm.kubsu.ru> <1503723687.20021228134909@fpm.kubsu.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 09:50 AM 12/28/2002 -0600, Lute Mullenix wrote: > >One other option and it's the way I do it is to just download the floppy >images and boot from floppy, then install the rest of the system via ftp >site. I installed 4.3 from CD, but that was the last one, of course I was >still on dial-up at that time. On the other hand if I had a CD burner.... I have a CD burner but I always do the FTP installation just because it's so co0l. It takes a little longer ... OK, it takes a lot longer, but it runs attended after you make all your choices .. but it's still novel to me to install over a network connection. Not to mention getting the very latest releases and fixes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message