From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 23 07:57:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA28692 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 07:57:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lorax.ubergeeks.com (lorax.ubergeeks.com [206.205.41.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA28681 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 07:57:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adrian@lorax.ubergeeks.com) Received: from localhost (adrian@localhost) by lorax.ubergeeks.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA01833; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 10:57:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from adrian@lorax.ubergeeks.com) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 10:57:29 -0400 (EDT) From: ADRIAN Filipi-Martin Reply-To: Adrian Filipi-Martin To: Virus Collector cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ok......now what??? In-Reply-To: <19980623054743.25767.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 Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Virus Collector wrote: > I am wanting to install FreeBSD on my computer. > When I go to ftp://ptp.freeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD what do I need to > download?? There are a bunch of files in there. What are the essentials > to the OS that I need to download?? > Please send reply to vcollector@hotmail.com > Thanks. If you want the latest non-experimental release, cd into 2.2.6-RELEASE. Then grab INSTALL.TXT and ERRATA.TXT, then read them. If you can install over the network, just grab the boot.flp file from the floppies subdirectory and then what ever tool you need in your particular situation to make a bootable floppy from it. Adrian -- [ adrian@ubergeeks.com -- Ubergeeks Consulting -- http://www.ubergeeks.com/ ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message