Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 06:04:32 +0159 (MET DST) From: Gerd Truschinski <gt@freebsd.first.gmd.de> To: jimmy@chn.ak.planet.gen.nz Subject: Re: Help! Which files to download ? Message-ID: <199509100404.GAA01099@freebsd.first.gmd.de> In-Reply-To: <213bujr5f@chn.ak.planet.gen.nz> from "Jimmy Chen" at Sep 9, 95 08:59:33 pm
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> > Hello : > I am a newbie of unix who is interested in installing FreeBSD on my system, > however, after browsing through .../FreeBSD/2.0.5-RELEASE/ on one of the mirror > sites, and read some of the introductory documentations, I still don't quite > know which file I should download for the installation (from dos partition). I > know that I would need .../floppies/*.* . > Do I need files from any other directories ? you also need rawrite.exe to write the floppy image to the floppy and the .../bin/bin*.* files in a directory "c:\freebsd". That is enough to start a installation. I have done it last week. Then I got the last sources and compiled a new system. (About 12 hours on a 66MHZ 80486). With only one showstopper ( the missing eign file which one could copy by hand) I have select the 'minimal installation set'. /gT/ -- Gerd Truschinski | Yes, this is the sort of scenario I gt@freebsd.first.gmd.de | think up to amuse myself in the evenings. emma@cs.tu-berlin.de | -- with confirmation from Larisa
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