From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 19 09:00:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA15379 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 19 Sep 1998 09:00:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from federation.addy.com (federation.addy.com [207.239.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA15372 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 1998 09:00:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from francisco@natserv.com) Received: from quisqueya.natserv.com (slip-32-100-252-130.ny.us.ibm.net [32.100.252.130]) by federation.addy.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA08703; Sat, 19 Sep 1998 12:00:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199809191600.MAA08703@federation.addy.com> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <01BDE248.37B25A40@MINH > Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 12:00:16 -0000 (GMT) Reply-To: francisco@natserv.com From: Francisco Reyes To: (Minh Vu) Subject: RE: Download FreeBSD ??? Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 17-Sep-98 Minh Vu wrote: > I'm want to try this FreeBSD OS, but I don't know which files or the > necessary files need to download and operate. Take a look at the handbook at www.freebsd.org (or mirrors). The instructions have all you need to get you started. >I did download the floppy > image and the fdimage.exe. Is it only those file that i need to ready > operate FreeBSD OS ? Those two files are enough to create a boot floppy. From there you MAY be able to install the whole OS by ftp. I say "you may", not because of the intallation program, but because of your ISP. I have only done ftp installs a couple of times. One time I had a provider which had the common ppp login while the second time I had to ask in the lists for LOTS of help to find out how to connect to the other ISP. As an alternative you can get the CDrom from Walnut Creek. I highly recommend this route. Can not only save you a lot of time, but since this is your first intallation there may be lots of other things you are not aware that you will soon find out you want. If you have the CD this will help a lot. If money is tight find a couple of friends to split the cost of the CD and share it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message