From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 29 15: 4:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.mediadesign.nl (md2.mediadesign.nl [212.19.205.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B19D37B401 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:04:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 10189 invoked by uid 1002); 29 Oct 2001 23:04:07 -0000 From: "Alson van der Meulen" Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 00:04:07 +0100 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tiny starter configuration for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011030000407.A13434@md2.mediadesign.nl> Mail-Followup-To: questions@freebsd.org References: <3.0.5.32.20011029080008.00fa6e38@mail.sage-american.com> <006b01c160cd$4df664c0$0a00000a@contactdish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <006b01c160cd$4df664c0$0a00000a@contactdish> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 11:59:00PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > jacks@sage-american.com writes: > > > One thing that jumped out at me is using > > Walnut Creek. > > It's Wind River; my mistake. Here in Europe, I found a place that sells the > Wind River distribution of FreeBSD 4.3. Not the very most recent latest > version, but good enough for me. > > > Mostly, however, why don't you consider getting > > the most currect Stable 4.4 version that is up > > to date and readily available via download? > > I tried that, but when I attempted to burn the ISO image to a CD-R, WinOnCD > instantly aborted, and did that consistently each time I tried it, so I gave up. > Trying to figure out why WinOnCD is blowing up would take more time than it's > worth. I figured I'd just pay $30 for a set of CDs instead (trivial compared to > the cost of the PC I plan to get to run it, and certainly pale in comparison to > the $800 I'd have to pay for a server version of Windows). > > > Or, simply get the boot floppies and install > > via FTP ... > > No easy way to create boot floppies with Windows NT. And since I'd be > installing on a completely blank machine, I'm not sure how I'd be able to FTP > anywhere to get the rest. I have a broadband connection that requires that I > connect to my provider with PPTP. > > (Can anyone tell me if there are PPTP drivers for FreeBSD, so that I could > connect to the Net over my DSL connection from the UNIX box?) There are, you won't be able to use it during install though I guess... you'll have to install a port for it (/usr/ports/net/pptpclient) > > > Your will have to decide if you want Stable > > or Current releases... > > Stable. I exhausted the novelty of upgrading to the very latest release every > sixty days many years ago. Indeed, I figure FreeBSD will be more stable than > Windows, which seems to be rewritten every twelve months these days. Rewritten??? /me hasn't seen a real rewrite since DOS 1.0 (and maybe windows NT 3.1) -- ,-------------------------------------------. > Name: Alson van der Meulen < > Personal: alson@flutnet.org < > School: alson@gymnasiumleiden.nl < `-------------------------------------------' Oops! (said in a quiet, almost surprised voice) --------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message