From: "Mark B. Withers" <mwithers@one.net> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FTP install of FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010114200023.C281@arrakis.desert-power.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10101150041410.456-100000@parmenides.utp.xnet>; from acs.van.roosmalen@hccnet.nl on Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 07:15:02PM -0500 References: <20010114152641.B283@arrakis.desert-power.org> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10101150041410.456-100000@parmenides.utp.xnet>
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Very kewl ideas here. Thanks for all the info! Mark On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 07:15:02PM -0500, Janko van Roosmalen wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Mark B. Withers wrote: > > > I have a question. > > > > Has anybody done this? > > > > How does it work? > > > > Does it take a long time with a DSL connection? > > > > I've never tried it before, but sure am tempted with an older version > > of FreeBSD. Sendmail is nagging me. heh heh > > > > If you have a small home network you also can download the files to a > computer in your network. Configure it as an ftp server and install from > there. > > You can experiment as much as you want and you do not have to redownload > if something goes wrong. This way you save Internet bandwidth. You can > also install on a second machine or help a friend who isn't so lucky to > have DSL ;). > > Last week I used wget to download 4.2 (everything expect packages) from a > Dutch ftp mirror with an ISDN connection. I actually did the download in 2 > nightly sessions. Installation was very fast over the home internal > network (10 Mbit). No waiting for a cdrom that has to spin up to its > speed. > > ===Janko van Roosmalen - Vught - Netherlands=== > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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