Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 21:57:44 +0200 (EET) From: Bernie <Bernie_X@myrealbox.com> To: Narayanan <narayans80@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: beginner Message-ID: <20020119215049.D1304-100000@BLAST> In-Reply-To: <009e01c1a134$11681650$2ac3b69d@813esb077>
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On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Narayanan wrote: > hi, > i am narayanan srinivasan, a graduate student doing my masters in west virginia univ. i am planning to install freebsd in my system. i am quite a beginner to freebsd even to unix infact. i happened to read thro the installation guide. there was a reference to a freebsd cdrom in most of the places. i would like to get a copy of the installation cd. there were also references of downloading it from a ftp site.can u please send me stuff i got to download from the ftp.. that is the exact directories i got to download in order to have a typical installation in my system with/wihtout GUI interface. > > seeking your early reply.. > > Narayanan Srinivasan > Graduate Student > LDCSEE > West Virginia University > Morgantown WV 26505 > Ph: (304) 293 5338 > > the stuff you'll need is there: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.4-RELEASE/ make sure u don't download the directory called packages. also you can skip games if you want... alternatively, a good solution imho is to get an iso image and burn a CD with it. in this case, if all goes wrong etc and you want to reformat and start again you'll always have that cd, which will have much more things appart from the basic system. maybe the best solution, i know now i should have done that, is to by a book on freebsd that has cds with it as well. in this way you get the book, which will prove very usefull, and the cds. if you follow the book option, make sure is a recent one so that the cd will not be outdated... hope it helps. Regards, --Bernie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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