Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 22:54:12 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which Installation CD do I need? Message-ID: <20030413215412.GB28488@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <3E99D3D6.3030703@netscape.net> References: <3E99D3D6.3030703@netscape.net>
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--NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 04:17:10PM -0500, Richard Carranza wrote: > I am interested in installing Free BSD from www.linuxiso.org. I only=20 > have a 33 MB RAM and 166MHz computer. So, I want a minimal light=20 > weight installation, text based OS. Which CDs do I need from the=20 > linuxiso.org website? Thanks. Hmmm... Apart from the point that FreeBSD is not Linux in any shape or form, interesting site none-the-less. Recommend you install FreeBSD 4.8, which is the latest release on the 4-STABLE branch. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html for general installation instructions. To find a near-by mirror site with the ISO images you need look at http://www.freebsdmirrors.org/FBSDsites.php3 In order to install, you need no more than the 4.8-RELEASE-i386-mini.iso image, but that is the bare minimum. The disk1 image contains the same stuff as the mini iso with the addition of a bunch of extra stuff like documentation, some essential extra packages and XFree86. The disk2 image contains a live filesystem image and a copy of the FreeBSD CVS repository. On the other hand, if you have reasonably fast network access, you can download a couple of floppy images from here: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.8-RELEASE/floppies/ and install the whole system over the network. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+mdyEdtESqEQa7a0RAr+aAKCFT8fawa6GNHduewWhi2DS+k8ZQwCfa/TN dnKuH3tGfhXVQRaOzwT+Dmc= =TRDQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ--
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