From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 29 06:25:16 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7399A37B401 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 06:25:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from out002.verizon.net (out002pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5492643FA3 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 06:25:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([129.44.43.88]) by out002.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.27 201-253-122-126-127-20021220) with ESMTP id <20030329142514.QNQF9562.out002.verizon.net@mac.com>; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 08:25:14 -0600 Message-ID: <3E85ACC6.7000409@mac.com> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 09:25:10 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20030329131751.31934.qmail@web21102.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030329131751.31934.qmail@web21102.mail.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.73.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out002.verizon.net from [129.44.43.88] at Sat, 29 Mar 2003 08:25:14 -0600 cc: John Johnson Subject: Re: FREEBSD FOR SIERRA LEONE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 14:25:20 -0000 John Johnson wrote: [ ... ] > 1. But a funny problem I seem to have is identifying which > of the FTP programs to use. The FTP command in a DOS prompt window (type 'cmd' or 'command' from Start->Run) is adequate. Or get a download manager for Windows like GetRight. > 2. Do i download directly to the floppys or to my Windows > machine before using fdimage to format. Download to your Windows machine. An image of a floppy disk won't fit on a (already formatted) floppy disk. > 3. Do I download the ISO images to the Windows machine before durning > (as that would be better in case of an interruption during downloading.) Download the ISO's to your Windows machine, as well. www.nero.com has a free trial version of their burning software which will do the right thing, if you're not sure of how to burn the CD correctly. > I just learnt that I have to start the program from the DOS environment, > which I will try now and give you a feedback. OK. Good luck. -- -Chuck