From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 14 17: 1:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.one.net (mail3.one.net [206.112.192.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CB6537B400 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 17:00:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from ip-216-23-53-117.adsl.one.net ([216.23.53.117] EHLO arrakis.desert-power.org ident: IDENT-NOT-QUERIED [port 22788]) by mail2.one.net with ESMTP id <338892-27044>; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 20:00:50 -0500 Received: (from mwithers@localhost) by arrakis.desert-power.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA00367 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 20:00:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwithers) From: "Mark B. Withers" To: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: FTP install of FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010114200023.C281@arrakis.desert-power.org> References: <20010114152641.B283@arrakis.desert-power.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from acs.van.roosmalen@hccnet.nl on Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 07:15:02PM -0500 Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 19:59:16 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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