From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 23 07:36:43 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F29516A4B3 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 07:36:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D2AE43F75 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 07:36:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8NEaeOg016852; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 10:36:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h8NEadTD016851; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 10:36:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200309231436.h8NEadTD016851@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: vincent_dorio@yahoo.com (Vincent Dorio) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 10:36:37 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20030923133803.48066.qmail@web80706.mail.yahoo.com> from "Vincent Dorio" at Sep 23, 2003 06:38:03 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Information needed X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 14:36:43 -0000 > > To whom it may concern, > What files and folders do I need to download from http://www.freebsd.org > in order to have the latest and most complete version of BSD? It looks like you had better start with the documentation or you will be lost. It is all clearly detailed in the handbook and actually in several other places online. In general you only need to download the mini-ISO image and burn it directly to a CD. The rest can all be done from that, although if you have a slow net connection it can take a few hours. Since I have a good connection, it generall takes about an hour to do a whole installation including installing the entire ports tree or sometimes called the ports skeleton (but of course, not all of the ports source - the source is only downloaded when you actually install a particular port). Good luck and read, search and study a while before you do anything with actual files, CDs or disks. ////jerry > > Respectfully, > > Vincent M. Dorio >