From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 21 13:46:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF91016A4CE for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 13:46:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from magnesium.net (toxic.magnesium.net [207.154.84.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 82EA243D1D for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 13:46:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adamw@magnesium.net) Received: (qmail 45410 invoked by uid 1252); 21 Feb 2004 21:46:34 -0000 Date: 21 Feb 2004 16:46:34 -0500 Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 16:46:34 -0500 From: Adam Weinberger To: NeuralDecimation@aol.com Message-ID: <20040221214634.GW13847@toxic.magnesium.net> References: <15c.2db85c19.2d692978@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15c.2db85c19.2d692978@aol.com> X-Editor: Vim 6.2 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx X-ASL: 6/m/behind you User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: downloading gnome X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 21:46:34 -0000 >> (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 -- Adam Weinberger adam@vectors.cx // adamw@FreeBSD.org // adamw@magnesium.net http://www.vectors.cx