From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 1 5:46:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from desh.cse.iitd.ernet.in (mailer.cse.iitd.ac.in [202.141.68.3]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DC203DAF for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 05:46:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from cse.iitd.ac.in (root@poorvi.cse.iitd.ernet.in [10.20.3.12]) by desh.cse.iitd.ernet.in (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA31938 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 19:17:06 +0530 Received: from localhost (csu96154@localhost) by cse.iitd.ac.in (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA08269 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 19:17:19 +0530 Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 19:17:19 +0530 (IST) From: Rakhesh Sasidharan X-Sender: csu96154@poorvi.cse.iitd.ernet.in To: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: Regarding FreeBSD image (pls fwd to wellsian) 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 I sent this mail to Dave, but it bounced back. Dave, could you please send me ur email (if u don't mind) so that I could communicate directly. Please do reply. Rakhesh PS: Thanks a lot to all the others who replied to me also. Thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------------- From rakhesh@cse.iitd.ac.in Tue Feb 1 19:11:13 2000 Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 19:10:08 +0530 (IST) From: Rakhesh Sasidharan To: wellsian Subject: Re: Regarding FreeBSD image (pls fwd to wellsian) Thanks a lot for your prompt replies. They were really helpful. However, I have a couple of doubts more to ask. Fiest of all, my situation is that I would have to take my hard-disk (a spare one that I have) to my lab out here, and then either download an image of the CD (and then burn it), or directly install from the Net (as you suggested). However, I have some fears abt the second situation. First of all, after I install the system out here, when I put the HDD back on my machine, would FreeBSD complain because of different HDD numbers (in Linux terms, /dev/hda1, /dev/hdb1, ...), and an altogether different machine config (for eg, no NIC) ? And also, suppose I download the CD image (which I would prefer, because then I would always have a copy with me which I can revert to incase of any troubles; and also I can install FreeBSD again if I wan't to), is there any waay I can install from that image *without* burning it to a CD? I was reading abt how to burn CDs in Linux, and there was some mention of a loop device which lets you check if the image works fine. Is there any way I can use that to install FreeBSD ? Thanks once again. Rakhesh On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, wellsian wrote: > 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