From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 17 12:45:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA11915 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 12:45:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from kani.wwa.com (kani.wwa.com [198.49.174.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA11896 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 12:45:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gstevens@forsythemca.com) From: gstevens@forsythemca.com Received: from notessmtp.forsythesolutions.com(really [204.248.175.122]) by kani.wwa.com via sendmail with smtp id for ; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 11:01:28 -0600 (CST) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #88 built 1997-Nov-30) Received: by notessmtp.forsythesolutions.com(Lotus SMTP MTA v1.06 (346.8 3-18-1997)) id 86256570.005D969C ; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 11:02:14 -0500 X-Lotus-FromDomain: FORSYTHE To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <86256570.005D1C4F.00@notessmtp.forsythesolutions.com> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 11:04:09 -0500 Subject: Installing from an MS-DOS partition Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm a novice user planning to install FreeBSD from an MS-DOS partition. The documentation says to download as many "dists" as you like - but how do I know which ones I need and/or might want? The FTP directories are huge. Please tell me which files I should download to perform a novice installation? Thanks