Date: 12 Feb 2000 14:04:20 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Ronald G. Arnold Jr." <rarnold@colemantx.com> Cc: <Fravlahua@aol.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: how many? Message-ID: <8666vusk3f.fsf@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: "Ronald G. Arnold Jr."'s message of "Fri, 11 Feb 2000 18:49:59 -0600" References: <3b.f43b34.25d5fadd@aol.com> <001d01bf74f3$18f5cc60$997b403f@ronaldjr>
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"Ronald G. Arnold Jr." <rarnold@colemantx.com> writes: > I would agree with Craig Burgess. I too, am new to FreeBSD and also > getting away from Linux. Well, then welcome to FreeBSD! Both of you. > I can't afford the CDs and can't seem to get it by booting with the > boot floppies and ftping from freebsd.com, so I've been ftping all the > files from there and saving them in Windows and have been downloading > for 5 days so far, day and night. > I use a dial up connection and only achieve a 28.8k, so I can't get > much at a time. I was told that it would require about 25 floppies, > or install from a DOS partition. I don't have a much better modem than you. Mine's also a 28.8 Kbit/s modem, but the installation of the basic "bin" package, the "doc" and "ports", along with the statically linked binaries of "cvsup" took a little less than 4 hours. After that I had a really minimal install, but it was a FreeBSD system running there. Another night's run to CVSup all the sources and the ports, and I had an updated kernel and "world". It certainly sounds better than having to download the entire thing, which will probably need a lot more days than just 5. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > For my public PGP key: finger keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr PGP fingerprint, phone and address in the headers of this message. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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