Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 23:43:24 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: Giorgio Nobili <giorgio_f_nobili@hp.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809282340260.3140-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <360F8537.25C0@hp.com>
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On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Giorgio Nobili wrote: >Hi, be patient! I'm totally novice to these arguments; I'm using DOS and >Windows from 6 years and now I'm looking to see if there's something >better around. I've red your "Installing FreeBSD" on th URL http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html Do these instructions here... >and it's all clear but .... the first link "Obtaining FreeBSD" brings to >FTP sites and another click to ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD. >Another click brings me to a page intitled "Current directory is >/pub/FreeBSD" with a great amount of directories:for an ignorant like And don't even click on these links. You don't need to if you follow the above instructions. >I'm, it's impossible to understand what I need to download to have a >minimun installation which make me understand if this new OS can be for >me or not. I hope that also a novice can have an help to sail in this You do not need to understand the "impossible". The installation disc (1.4 MB) is the only thing you need to manually download. FreeBSD will take care of all of the tricky stuff. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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