From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 21 19:19:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.is.co.za (mercury.is.co.za [196.4.160.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA92637B401 for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 19:19:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from c4-pta-72.dial-up.net (c4-pta-72.dial-up.net [196.26.210.72]) by mercury.is.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id C146A3F2B; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 04:19:29 +0200 (SAST) Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 04:21:46 +0200 (SAST) From: The Psychotic Viper X-X-Sender: To: "Steven G. Schauer" Cc: Subject: Re: BSD In-Reply-To: <000101c14307$1670ae40$42840b23@user.msu.edu> Message-ID: <20010922042009.S39981-100000@lucifer.fuzion.ath.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Hi, On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Steven G. Schauer wrote: > I'm trying to download the BSD software package and put it onto CD to > install, however whenever I click on the files all I get is a large list of > files, and I'm not sure which ones I need, etc. I am not really that > familiar with UNIX style operating systems, I just want to setup a firewall > since I'm connected to the Internet all the time. Your help is appreciated. > Thanks. you may want to get the iso and burn to cd (recommend that actually). You can dl it here : ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.4/ Burn that to cd and you shouldnt have problems booting (if your bios allows it) and beginning the installation process....hopefully:) HTH PsyV To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message