From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 14 16:14:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from deliver.hccnet.nl (deliver.hccnet.nl [193.172.127.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F41E237B402 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 16:14:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from parmenides.utp.xnet by deliver.hccnet.nl via uds67-123.dial.hccnet.nl [193.173.123.67] with ESMTP id BAA10238 (8.8.8/1.13); Mon, 15 Jan 2001 01:14:27 +0100 (MET) Received: by parmenides.utp.xnet (Postfix, from userid 1005) id 4848F146; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 01:14:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by parmenides.utp.xnet (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DA6D101; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 01:14:22 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 01:14:21 +0100 (CET) From: Janko van Roosmalen X-Sender: acs@parmenides.utp.xnet To: "Mark B. Withers" Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: FTP install of FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20010114152641.B283@arrakis.desert-power.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Mark B. Withers wrote: > I have a question. > > Has anybody done this? > > How does it work? > > Does it take a long time with a DSL connection? > > I've never tried it before, but sure am tempted with an older version > of FreeBSD. Sendmail is nagging me. heh heh > If you have a small home network you also can download the files to a computer in your network. Configure it as an ftp server and install from there. You can experiment as much as you want and you do not have to redownload if something goes wrong. This way you save Internet bandwidth. You can also install on a second machine or help a friend who isn't so lucky to have DSL ;). Last week I used wget to download 4.2 (everything expect packages) from a Dutch ftp mirror with an ISDN connection. I actually did the download in 2 nightly sessions. Installation was very fast over the home internal network (10 Mbit). No waiting for a cdrom that has to spin up to its speed. ===Janko van Roosmalen - Vught - Netherlands=== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message