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Date:      Tue, 20 Oct 1998 18:45:44 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        dlore@ceyp.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: help
Message-ID:  <19981020184544.A1141@scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <362BF84B.4CC8@ceyp.net>
References:  <362BF84B.4CC8@ceyp.net>

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dlore wrote:

> I'm interested in checking out FreeBSD, but I don't know what I'm
> looking for. I have boot.flp and fdimage and have made the bootdisk but
> that's it. My connection is not hardwired, and I would like to install
> FreeBSD from a DOS partition. Can you tell me what file(s) I need to DL
> to do a full install of FreeBSD, and where or what directory on your
> server to find them in?

There is a handbook and a FAQ at www.freebsd.org, they are there to
be used, not ignored. If after reading them, you can't figure it out,
come back here.

Specifically, I think the page you need is
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html

Quick summary:
 go to ftp.freebsd.org
 go into /pub/FreeBSD/3.0-RELEASE
 get tools/fdimage.exe, floppies/boot.flp, bin/*, manpages/*, src/*

That should be enough to start with, you can always get more later. (If
you're impatient, leave the src/ till later, you don't need it to
install FreeBSD, but I'd certainly recommend getting the manpages
straight away.)

-- 
Ben Smithurst                                          ben@scientia.demon.co.uk

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