From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 28 12:18:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA29317 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 12:18:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA29310 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 12:18:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA01120; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 12:16:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 12:16:53 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Steven Blair cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Acquiring Free BSD In-Reply-To: <3274BFF4.51AC@dog.he.boeing.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Steven Blair wrote: > I have recently become familiar with Free BSD. > I would like to download a copy of FreeBSD to use as > a Web server on a Pentium or Pentium PRO based system. Feel free; it's all at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD. > I would like support for IDE, EIDE and SCSI > CDroms and Disks. I also need support for a 3Com > Etherlink III Ethernet board. Good on all counts. The driver for the 3c509 isn't the world's best at the moment, though; hopefully this will change in the near future. > Now for the question. How do I get all this? I > do not have a network connection where the PC is located. > I was hoping to download a ZIP file, or something like it, > that contains all modules to a Unix machine but I canot seem > to find one. Is there such a pre-packaged version? Not really; the system is very expansive and componentalized. The best thing for a non-netted machine would be to buy the FreeBSD CDROM from Walnut Creek CDROM, http://www.cdrom.com/. Or use a netted machine and build a floppy set. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major