From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Mar 16 18:20:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from luna.cdrom.com (luna.cdrom.com [204.216.28.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7577F37C4BD for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 18:20:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@luna.cdrom.com) Received: by luna.cdrom.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 56408237; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 18:20:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 18:20:02 -0800 From: Jim Mock To: David Marcantonio Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD suggestion Message-ID: <20000316182002.A60127@luna.cdrom.com> Reply-To: jim@luna.cdrom.com References: <38D193A7.8221D8FE@sanger.k12.ca.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.9i In-Reply-To: <38D193A7.8221D8FE@sanger.k12.ca.us>; from david_marcantonio@sanger.k12.ca.us on Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 06:08:41PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 at 18:08:41 -0800, David Marcantonio wrote: > Is it possible to provide FreeBSD in a ISO disk image format on your FTP > servers? I noticed RedHat has this option for downloading RedHat Linux. > You go to one of their FTP sites and you can find a directory called > "iso." After you download it, you can drop it on a CD-ROM burning app > and make an image of the CD they sell in stores. I feel this is a great > idea to get FreeBSD. If you provide an easy to copy format for beginners > of BSD, they won't have to figure out which file goes in what directory, > or which file they need. If you creat disk images of your FreeBSD, > someone with a quick connection can download it and have their own ready > to go copy of FreeBSD. This way, you'll get more novice BSD users to > install it. Just thought I might suggest that piece of info with you. This has been available for a while. Check the FTP site.. ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES The 4.0-R ISOs should be appearing shortly. - jim -- - jim mock - walnut creek cdrom/freebsd test labs - jim@luna.cdrom.com - - phone: 1.925.691.2800 x.3814 - fax: 1.925.674.0821 - jim@FreeBSD.org - - editor - The FreeBSDzine - www.freebsdzine.org - jim@freebsdzine.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message