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Date:      Sat, 21 Feb 2004 16:46:34 -0500
From:      Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>
To:        NeuralDecimation@aol.com
Cc:        gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: downloading gnome
Message-ID:  <20040221214634.GW13847@toxic.magnesium.net>
In-Reply-To: <15c.2db85c19.2d692978@aol.com>
References:  <15c.2db85c19.2d692978@aol.com>

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>> (02.21.2004 @ 1636 PST): NeuralDecimation@aol.com said, in 0.9K: <<
> i'm sure that you get alot of emails a day so i'll try to make this short. i 
> know that most people that use gnome know how to do most of this. i'm trying 
> to download gnome to use it as the main and only operating system for my 
> laptop. i keep trying to find a site that'll allow me to download it. every link 
> that i click on just goes to a page that won't load or something. if you could 
> give me a direct link so that i could download it that would be great. the only 
> way for me to install it would to download it onto this computer and burn it 
> to a CD in a bootable format because i have no current OS on my laptop anymore, 
> i've formatted the harddrive. could you help? i'd appreciate it, and thank 
> you for your time.
>> end of "downloading gnome" from NeuralDecimation@aol.com <<

GNOME isn't an operating system; it's a program. You have to install
an operating system first, and then you can run GNOME on it.

You're writing to a FreeBSD list, so I'm going to point you towards how
to install FreeBSD.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html

# Adam


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Adam Weinberger
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