From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 26 21: 0:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gbronline.com (mail.gbronline.com [12.145.226.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C854A37B41C for ; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 21:00:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from daleco [12.145.236.13] by mail.gbronline.com (SMTPD32-7.06) id A20C553300FC; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 22:59:08 -0500 Message-ID: <007d01c1ed9f$f2d4cd60$0dec910c@daleco> From: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." To: "Brandon Cruz" , References: <3CCA1E7E.2AECF77E@attbi.com> Subject: Re: Hello Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 22:59:36 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 From: "Brandon Cruz" To: Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 10:43 PM Subject: Hello > Hello there, my name is Brandon Cruz and I was wondering how I could > download the FreeBSD for my computer. It would be great of you to answer > me back as soon as you could. Thanks very much. > > Brandon Hi, Brandon!! FreeBSD is pretty cool. You might tell us all something about your hardware if you want more specific answers to your questions. Also, FreeBSD is pretty "Read-Intensive," so if you haven't been "googling" for answers and/ or reading the freebsd.org site, you may not get helpful replies from everyone :-/ Here are some general instructions if you're running a PC (Windoze, 386-586 class CPU) box: 1. Visit www.freebsd.org and read the first page you see....about 5 paragraphs down is a mention that you need 2 blank floppies and "these directions" (which is a link) --- and that will give you quite a bit to go on. OR ----- 2. If you're a little more familiar with the 'net ftp anonymously to ftp.freebsd.org and cd to: pub/FreeBSD/Releases/i386/4.5-RELEASE/floppies >binary >get kern.flp >mfsroot.flp then cd / and cd tools and: >get fdimage.exe put these in their own folder, open a DOS prompt there and insert a floppy. Then c:\floppydir\fdimage kern.flp a: and so on.....then, boot your box with the kern.flp diskette..... Like I said, READ lots. Someone has already posted some links. If you have broadband and a CD burner, you might go for the ISO images instead, but I always do installs via FTP. (doing one tonight, BTW) Kevin Kinsey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message