From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 29 13:16:06 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EEB316A417 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 13:16:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zszalbot@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E220C13C4B3 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 13:16:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zszalbot@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so2243116wxd for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:16:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=23+c+LMURDtOnvdsHFO5iVFoaNVXqtNT9OP0EHNRLfs=; b=orfaqDA2cIIQYP28aj68pR9nKLmmldhjP5Dn05Idng6zFsBilBL1WVaVy10OhxtfFpYNHTs34V0iQxYWKwgl+lfJUyWYu9uLMP6gyjk8wG9rIIVW+DLP1bornd8+BT6JA4shOtpBlI/Iyq6WOlcR1SNh5lE54n8QjPAfmOafeA8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=AU8NCp2jsBrMb3N0u2BLaHqyuGiaB9t+um59S/0WpHY3dbG1ciqfqrK6dZmX7rvObczjvOznW6z6rRk/LINRvjLYBAn0QcSQ2toEi++OP+Jm3divDGxfTx6WDJYOKi8uAX1rFibywsER4VPbZmn0i44o+aOGE9AAMQjsUnqBV3w= Received: by 10.70.52.2 with SMTP id z2mr5635608wxz.1191070195074; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 05:49:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.95.16 with HTTP; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 05:49:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <94136a2c0709290549v4f125681x25be970db61b7d30@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:49:55 +0200 From: "Zbigniew Szalbot" To: "Brian Guest" In-Reply-To: <207001.19503.qm@web45610.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <207001.19503.qm@web45610.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: want to install free bsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 13:16:06 -0000 Hi Brian, 2007/9/29, Brian Guest : > Dear questions@FreeBSD > > I would like to install freebsd 6.2 or 6.0 on my pentium three PC computer. > At this moment my pentium three computer has XP installed on it i do not know > which files from the freebsd website to download and write to a CDRW orCDR > could you direct me to the wright files and walk me through the process of installing > free bsd I think you may download the ISO files from here: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.2/6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso When I was first installing freebsd a year ago I sticked to the excellent documentation: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html I remember I repeated the installation 2-3 times because while installing I learnt what some of the options meant (coming from windows world I did not understand some of them). All the best, Zbigniew Szalbot