From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 26 5:39:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jive.SoftHome.net (jive.SoftHome.net [66.54.152.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2F0E137B408 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 05:39:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 5420 invoked by uid 417); 26 Jun 2002 12:39:14 -0000 Received: from shunt-smtp-out-0 (HELO softhome.net) (172.16.3.12) by shunt-smtp-out-0 with SMTP; 26 Jun 2002 12:39:14 -0000 Received: from unknown ([216.194.4.88]) (AUTH: LOGIN yid@softhome.net) by softhome.net with esmtp; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 06:39:11 -0600 Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 08:39:12 -0400 From: Joshua Lee To: freebsd-reply@akruijff.dds.nl Cc: freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl, Lenderman22@aol.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to get FreeBSD [was: help!] Message-Id: <20020626083912.3a03e393.yid@softhome.net> In-Reply-To: <1801994628.20020626121836@dds.nl> References: <1801994628.20020626121836@dds.nl> Organization: Plan B Software Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.5claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 12:18:36 +0200 Alex wrote: > You can install FreeBSD in different ways. One is online install. You > need to have a connection before you install. So you probably wan't > to download the cd before you install. > > You can download this with ftp from ftp.freebsd.org (login anonymous) > then go to the directory: /pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/4.6/ and > download either disc1.iso. If you want to limit the donwload you could > try mini.iso, but you miss out on a lot of stuf. (Sorry for the duplicate message, I didn't hit reply-all). If you're not a Unix neewbie get the mini-iso if you're on dialup. Then get X Windows and other goodies via the ports collection. Downloading 600 megabyte ISOs via dialup is a long and error-prone process. > Another option is to buy the cd. I looked around for a wail but i > didn't find the site where you can buy these. bsdmall sells them. CompUSA is also a good place for them, they were selling FreeBSD Power Pack for half price ($50) last time I checked. (The base CD set, plus tools CDs and a manual.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message