From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 5 00:21:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA11076 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 00:21:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mrelay.jrc.it (mrelay.jrc.it [139.191.1.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA11071 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 00:21:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dirk.vangulik@jrc.it) Received: from mda00.jrc.it (mda00.jrc.it [139.191.7.10]) by mrelay.jrc.it (LMC5688) with ESMTP id JAA11563; Tue, 5 May 1998 09:21:23 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dirkx@localhost) by mda00.jrc.it (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA03333; Tue, 5 May 1998 09:22:51 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 09:22:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik X-Sender: dirkx@mda00.jrc.it To: "Michael A." cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Downloading FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <19980505053237.12246.qmail@hotmail.com> 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 On Tue, 5 May 1998, Michael A. wrote: > Hello. I am knowledgable in computers, and would like to download > FreeBSD. I went to the FTP site, to the FreeBSD 2.2.6 directory and > found tons of stuff. What I would like to know, is what to download. > Could you tell me? Fetching the files INSTALL.TXT (and perhaps ABOUT.TXT, README.TXT, *.TXT) would propably go a long way to answer your questions. You could also pop into a decent bookshop and pick up a copy of the FreeBSD handbook; it comes with 4 CD's which contain just about everything you did not known you always wanted. That safes oodles on download time. Dw > Thanks.. Mike > > 1st time with FreeBSD or a UNIX OS install. > > > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message