From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 6 8:29:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (lcmail2.lc.ca.gov [165.107.12.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10E8E37B43F for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 08:29:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drewt@writeme.com) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) id <0GBD00K01N118Y@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 08:29:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tagalong ([165.107.42.167]) by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) with SMTP id <0GBD00M9WN1088@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2001 08:29:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 08:29:13 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson Subject: RE: Questions questions questions In-reply-to: <20010406095906.B1618@billygoat.slb.to> To: Lisa Cc: questions@freebsd.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Lucas Bergman [mailto:lucas@slb.to] > Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 7:59 AM > To: Lisa > Cc: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Questions questions questions [snip] > > If not, I assume I can just FTP all the files and burn that, making > > the two floppies needed for install. > > Sure. Or you can just download only the files required to make your boot floppies and then do an FTP install. When I first installed my system, I downloaded the ISO, burned that, then created the boot floppies (my system wouldn't boot from CD), booted from the floppies, and then installed from the CD. Since then, I have never used that CD as FreeBSD is always changing and evolving and any updated I do via FTP using CVSUP (you'll learn about that later). This, among many other install options, is covered in the Handbook at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html. Experts: Please feel free to correct me if there is some disadvantage to my suggestion. Thanks! HTH, Drew [snip] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message