From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 30 0:56:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from boris.netgate.net (boris2.netgate.net [204.145.147.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B07A152C7 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 00:56:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wellsian@caffeine.com) Received: from localhost (wellsian@localhost) by boris.netgate.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA09253; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 00:55:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wellsian@caffeine.com) Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 00:55:34 -0800 (PST) From: wellsian X-Sender: wellsian@boris.netgate.net To: Rakhesh Sasidharan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regarding FreeBSD image (pls fwd to wellsian) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There's a much nicer method, actually. Download the net-install floppies, boot, and point to the ftp servers. Works great. Check out the install docs here: (I used to keep a window or two open to the handbook at all times. It's a very useful resource.) http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install-guide.html -Dave On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, wellsian wrote: > > I can download the ISO image and burn it in my Institute out here. > > BTW, suppose I wan't to just download FreeBSD to my hard-disk, and then > install it from there, how can I do it ? The ftp site has plenty of > directories and files in them - downloading them all would take me ages. > Is there any way that you could suggest as to how I might go abt doing it. > > Rakhesh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message