From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 15 18:12:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C41E237B7B5 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2000 18:12:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@wnm.net) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA02828; Sat, 15 Apr 2000 20:12:05 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 20:12:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Alex Charalabidis To: Dylan Fermoyle Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: download In-Reply-To: <000201bfa73e$ed2689c0$618791c2@dylanscomputer> 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, 16 Apr 2000, Dylan Fermoyle wrote: > This may sound extremely basic but I have gone to the mirror ftp site for ireland, but i dont know which file I am supposed to download is it /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.0-RELEASE ? > if so do I just download the entire folder as it is there? > Thank you for your time...sorry for the BASIC question :) > Dylan. > Get the floppy disk images from the floppies/ subdirectory. Write the images to a pair of blank floppies and boot from those floppies. If you lack the tools to write raw images, look in tools/. Once you've booted from those floppies, it practically installs itself. Check out http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install-guide.html for more detailed information. hth -ac -- ============================================================== Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 Systems Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 Author, The Book of IRC http://www.bookofirc.com/ ============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message