From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 6 21:48:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA05169 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 21:48:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA05162 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 21:48:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from dogbert.systems.sa.gov.au (torus.systems.sa.gov.au [143.216.254.221]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id VAA01524 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 21:48:29 -0800 Received: from jolt.systems.sa.gov.au (saltpie@jolt.systems.sa.gov.au [143.216.237.8]) by dogbert.systems.sa.gov.au (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA00779; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 16:14:17 +1030 From: "Garth Kidd" Message-Id: <960307161501.ZM2871@jolt.systems.sa.gov.au> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 16:14:53 +0930 In-Reply-To: Bryan Murdoch "Free Copy???" (Mar 6, 20:41) References: <313E5AE9.198D@itsnet.com> X-Mailer: Z-Mail 4.0 (4.0.0 Aug 21 1995) To: Bryan Murdoch Subject: Re: Free Copy??? Cc: questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > A friend told me that I could get a free copy of FreeBSD over the > internet, but I havn't seen any file. Is there any way to get a free > copy of it??? Yup. Get these two: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE/floppies/boot.flp ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE/tools/rawrite.exe Use RAWRITE under MS-DOS to copy boot.flp to a newly-formatted 1.44 or 1.2 meg floppy, then reboot and wait for the Boot: prompt. Quickly type 'kernel -c' (without the quotes) and hit Enter. At the next prompt, type 'visual'. Disable the entries for any device not present in your machine and make sure that any devices remaining are correctly configured, especially your network card, which you'll need working properly. Save your changes (they'll last until you have to reboot again) and the kernel will load its drivers and then run the FreeBSD installation software. This beauty lets you repartition your disks, set up filesystems, and install the rest of the operating system from your local FreeBSD mirror site. It doesn't get any easier than this, trust me :). For more details, see the documentation at: http://www.freebsd.org/ -- garth@pisces.systems.sa.gov.au | Garth Kidd +61-8-207-7740 (voice) | Professional Services Division +61-8-207-7860 (fax) | Southern Systems | Adelaide, AUSTRALIA