From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 26 8:44:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CE7037B400 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 08:43:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.a1poweruser.com (oh-chardon6a-62.clvhoh.adelphia.net [68.65.175.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89AED43E4A for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 08:43:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from barbish@a1poweruser.com) Received: from barbish (lanwin1 [10.0.10.6]) by smtp.a1poweruser.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 3AAD727E; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 10:45:51 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" To: "Gareth Lawrence" Cc: "FBSDQ" Subject: RE: Where to start? Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 10:42:15 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_001F_01C23491.1B6807A0" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <057601c234f7$3f1dcfc0$3201a8c0@zitan> X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal 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 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_001F_01C23491.1B6807A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 4.6 is a release that contains some bugs which effect about 20% of the user base. After it was released these bugs came to light. Also some security holes also came to light. The 4.6.1-RC2.iso is an minimum base install which has all the bugs fixed. The iso files you see in the 4.6 directory is the original buggy release containing all the CDROM images. The 4.6-min.iso contains just the FBSD system and is smallest in size for shorter download times. This is the iso image most FBSD users download. A word of caution about using MS/Windows to download and burn cd. First of all if you are using a dialup connection to your ISP for internet connection you better use an FTP client that allows you to resume a download after losing your connection with not starting over from the beginning. The FBSD FTP sites have a tendency to pause slow downloads until they time out. Second not all windows CDROM burner software can create CD's from ISO files. Sure they can write the ISO file to CD, but this is not what has to be done. The ISO file is an CD image which has to be converted to normal readable directories format while being written to CD. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Gareth Lawrence Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 6:53 PM To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Where to start? Greetings All, I want to download and install FreeBSD :-) I'm looking at the FTP directories, should I use the stable directory? Then I need to just download this stuff and burn in to CD and follow the steps outlined at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html - is that right? Thanks, interested in any advice on this :-) Awesome, G. ------=_NextPart_000_001F_01C23491.1B6807A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

4.6 is a release that contains some bugs which = effect about 20% of the user base. After it was released these bugs came to = light. Also some security holes also came to light. The 4.6.1-RC2.iso is an = minimum base install which has all the bugs fixed. The iso files you see in the = 4.6 directory is the original buggy release containing all the CDROM images. = The 4.6-min.iso contains just the FBSD system and is smallest in size for = shorter download times. This is the iso image most FBSD users download.   A word of caution about = using MS/Windows to download and burn cd. First of all if you are using a = dialup connection to your ISP for internet connection you better use an FTP = client that allows you to resume a download after losing your connection with = not starting over from the beginning. The FBSD  FTP sites have a tendency to pause slow downloads = until they time out.    = Second not all windows CDROM burner software can create CD's from ISO files. Sure = they can write the ISO file to CD, but this is not what has to be done. The ISO = file is an CD image which has to be converted to normal readable directories = format while being written to CD.   =

 

 

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From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG = [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Gareth Lawrence
Sent: Friday, July 26, = 2002 6:53 PM
To: = freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Where to = start?

 

Greetings All,

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I want to download and install FreeBSD :-) I'm looking at the FTP directories, = should I use the stable directory?  Then I need to just download this = stuff and burn in to CD and follow the steps outlined at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.= html - is that right?

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Thanks, interested in any advice on this :-)<= /p>

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Awesome, <= /p>

G.= <= /p>

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