From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 18 17:37: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawk-systems.com (hawk-systems.com [161.58.152.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 725F737B40C for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 17:37:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dave@hawk-systems.com) Received: from WS1 (ws1.nexusinternetsolutions.net [204.50.158.15]) by hawk-systems.com (8.11.2) id f7J0atv38754; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 18:36:56 -0600 (MDT) From: dave@hawk-systems.com (Dave) To: "Kris Kennaway" , "Richard A. Noordam" Cc: Subject: RE: ISO Images Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 20:34:03 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20010818172756.A74365@xor.obsecurity.org> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 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 especially since the ISO is old days after they are created... you still have to end up doing a CVSUP immediately after installing the ISO... save some time. >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Kris Kennaway >Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 8:28 PM >To: Richard A. Noordam >Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: ISO Images > > >On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 10:07:20PM -0700, Richard A. Noordam wrote: >> I am trying to change OS's from Redhat Linux to Free BSD. I am >however having difficulty finding the bootable ISO FreeBSD Install >Images for download. >> >> Any assistance would be appreciated. I am probably just missing the >obvious in my search for them... > >Unlike Redhat, you don't need ISO images to install FreeBSD. ISO >images are incredibly bandwidth-unfriendly and while useful for >systems which aren't directly connected to the internet, if you have >Internet connectivity it's much easier to just download the install >floppy disk image and do an FTP-based install. > >Kris > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message