From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 20 13:28:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA29203 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 13:28:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA29160 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 13:28:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.05 #3) id 0zVfqq-0000JV-00; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 18:45:44 +0100 Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 18:45:44 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: dlore@ceyp.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help Message-ID: <19981020184544.A1141@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <362BF84B.4CC8@ceyp.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <362BF84B.4CC8@ceyp.net> User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.12i (FreeBSD 3.0-BETA i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message