Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 20:09:30 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: John <warendaj@home.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Has anyone considered ... Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0011132008190.9633-100000@rac1.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <00a501c04dc8$9e6e4a80$4500a8c0@bens1.pa.home.com>
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There are iso images... check out: ftp://ftp5.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/ ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, John wrote: > ... the idea of having a CD version of the various FreeBSD installs > available for *download* as .iso format disc images? I know there are a > couple Linux distros that do this, and it seems like a reasonably sound and > simple idea, and a great convenience. > > Right now I'm up against a problem because the machine which I wish to > install FreeBSD on is hooked up to my cable modem. This machine was > actually running FreeBSD in the past, but when I hooked it up to the cable > modem I decided to try using Windows NT for that machine instead because of > the potential problems fiddling around getting the machine to properly > authenticate and get an address. My patience with NT is now wearing thin > and it's given me the will to research my task and decide to try to get > FreeBSD properly configured. > The problem however, arises that the machine will not be able to > authenticate without some playing around, meaning I CANNOT use the net > install. This leaves me with a few options obviously, but it just struck me > as I was contemplating how best to go about this install that if I could > just download and burn a CD image it would make this process a lot more > convenient. I can't imagine that mastering the CD image would be all the > difficult a process either, certainly seeming a great trade for the reward > in convenience. > > Of course, regardless of this, thanks to all the FreeBSD people for such > an astounding product. > > -John > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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