From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 12 5:50:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.x-treme.gr (mx2.x-treme.gr [212.120.192.15]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E67B53E71 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 05:50:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat46.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.238]) by mx2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.1) with SMTP id PAA05056 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 15:50:39 +0200 Received: (qmail 30493 invoked by uid 1001); 12 Feb 2000 12:04:20 -0000 To: "Ronald G. Arnold Jr." Cc: , Subject: Re: how many? References: <3b.f43b34.25d5fadd@aol.com> <001d01bf74f3$18f5cc60$997b403f@ronaldjr> From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 12 Feb 2000 14:04:20 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Ronald G. Arnold Jr."'s message of "Fri, 11 Feb 2000 18:49:59 -0600" Message-ID: <8666vusk3f.fsf@hades.hell.gr> Lines: 32 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.5 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Ronald G. Arnold Jr." 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