From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 31 03:09:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA09079 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 03:09:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA09074 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 03:09:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id DAA00976; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 03:09:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 03:09:06 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Ioannis Tambouras cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What directories to download? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Ioannis Tambouras wrote: > > I am a long time Linux user and my fate guided me to try freeBSD. Having > read INSTALL.TXT, my best choice of intallation (since I use a slow > ppp link) is to download all files a local nfs server (or ftp site) and > install from ethernet. > > When I look at the directory > I want to download the "Developer distribution". The boot.flp is ready, but > what directories do I need to download? I plan to install many networking > and admin packages, and ideally have cvs update capabilities (in part, > this is what attracted to freebsd). Take a look at the Online Help. I think it tells what pulls what. Or, do a custom installation and pick the distributions you want that are on the ftp site. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major