Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 15:13:14 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@hades.hell.gr> To: fuckit <fuckit@subdimension.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uhhh Message-ID: <20000130151314.A12825@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <200001292217.RAA23544@www.subdimension.com>; from fuckit@subdimension.com on Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 05:17:30PM -0500 References: <200001292217.RAA23544@www.subdimension.com>
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(message reformatted to fit 72 columns, keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 05:17:30PM -0500, fuckit wrote: > > ok i know its probably just because im a moron but ive been trying to > find this fucking freebsd on your ftp site for over an hour... An hour straight. My goodness! And you haven't managed to find anything in there. Any kind of nice and understandable link, like that "Documentation" looking straight back from the first page? > ive read about 7 readme.txts and i still am not FOR SURE on what i > need to dl. i dont want to just copy the whole folder. > 3.4-release. You don't need to download much. [That *is* the meaning of "dl", right? Please correct me if I'm wrong, and if it's not that a great pain for you try writing the words in their entirety.] If you want to install FreeBSD, you don't have to download much over the net. You can buy a CD set from Walnut Creek for $40 and have the entire release and all the ports in 4 nicely packaged CDs. On the other hand, if you want to install over the Net, here's what I did during my last clean installation of FreeBSD -- only this Friday night, it might help you get started. I got the two installation disks described in the handbook (by the way, you can find the handbook at <http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/index.html>). Then ftp-installed the basic system and had myself running with a fairly recent snapshot in a tiny bit less than three hours. The system sources and the ports came later with cvsup, after I read the relevant section in the handbook, which I installed from FTP during the system's initial package selection. "Staying stable with FreeBSD" is the section of the handbook you are (or, at least, should be) interested in to make this work for you. > since im using a dial up and it would take a week.....so what folder > do i need to copy? or what should i copy to have a full version with > all the extras..... thanks I am behind a 28.8 dialup connection. What I described above was done through my dialup account to a Greek ISP. If mentioning the words "Greek" and "ISP" is not scary enough, I can back my words up with traceroutes, and other data. What this means is that you are not the only one using a dialup connection to update and/or install a FreeBSD system. Try it out, you'll probably find it amusing after a while. > Oh, and one last thing. You don't have to start swearing to get results from this list. In fact, if you write in such an inflamatory tone, you're very likely to end up with a folder burning hot with flames. A lot of nice and knowledgable people are on this list too. Please, respect their kind efforts to help others, and don't use offensive language. Ciao. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > "Don't let your schooling interfere with your education." [Mark Twain] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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