From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 12 6: 3:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9757A3E5A for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 06:03:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from [208.219.234.26] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id ba536563 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 09:02:27 -0500 Received: from Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA03985; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 09:03:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) From: Walter Brameld To: Giorgos Keramidas , "Ronald G. Arnold Jr." Subject: Re: how many? Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 09:02:45 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: , References: <3b.f43b34.25d5fadd@aol.com> <001d01bf74f3$18f5cc60$997b403f@ronaldjr> <8666vusk3f.fsf@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <8666vusk3f.fsf@hades.hell.gr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00021209032502.03943@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > "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. > I did an X-user install via ftp at 28.8. Took around 7 hours. -- Walter in·tel·lec·tu·al n. Someone who has been educated past his/her level of intelligence. If you were wondering, the answer is 42. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message