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Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 15:24:44 -0800
From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To: Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>
Cc: "Mark B. Withers" <mwithers@one.net>,
	freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: FTP install of FreeBSD
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On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 02:53:31PM -0800, Josh Paetzel wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark B. Withers" <mwithers@one.net>
> To: "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 12:25 PM
> Subject: FTP install of FreeBSD
> 
> 
> > I have a question.
> >
> > Has anybody done this?
> >
> 
> Yes...people do ftp installs all the time.
> 
> > How does it work?
> >
> To make a long story short, you boot the freebsd install program off floppy
> and then the install program connects to a ftp site and downloads what it
> needs to do the install...see the freebsd handbook at
> www.freebsd.org/handbook for more details.
> 
> 
> > Does it take a long time with a DSL connection?
> >
> 
> To do a full install downloads about 600 megs or so.  I am guessing that is
> about 4 hours or so on a typical home DSL.

600MB seems like a lot to me. ftp.freebsd.org lists,

  165846  ./releases/i386/4.2-RELEASE

That does not include X which would be another 50MB or so and packages
which is a meg or two here and there.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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