From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 30 14:31:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA19008 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Apr 1997 14:31:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kevin.sunshine.net ([204.191.205.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA19003 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 1997 14:31:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (cagey@localhost) by kevin.sunshine.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA00262; Wed, 30 Apr 1997 14:23:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 14:23:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Eliuk Reply-To: Kevin Eliuk To: Daniel Patrick cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing BSD over PPP Problems In-Reply-To: <199704292237.AA00248@egate2.citicorp.com> 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 Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Daniel Patrick wrote: I'd suggest you do what I ended up doing, with the long downloads for install. If you do a floppy install of the /bin directory and after setting up ppp you can enter sysinstall and download the distributions in much more resonable sets of download. There's nothing worse than almost being there and sysinstall not being able to finish the installation. _______________________________________ |\ /| "quod nibil illi deerat ad | \ kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net / | regnandum praeter regnum" | \ Kevin G. Eliuk / | | /^\_________________________/^\ | | / \ | |/--===### Powered By FreeBSD 2.2.1 \| | www.freebsd.org | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~