From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 17 13:57:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA17691 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 13:57:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from keywest.ird.rl.af.mil (KEYWEST.IRD.RL.AF.MIL [128.132.193.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA17681 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 13:57:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from goeringerm@keywest.ird.rl.af.mil) Received: by keywest.ird.rl.af.mil with Microsoft Exchange (IMC 4.0.837.3) id <01BD0B0D.866D91D0@keywest.ird.rl.af.mil>; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 17:02:15 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Goeringer, Michael" To: "'gstevens@forsythemca.com'" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: Installing from an MS-DOS partition Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 17:02:13 -0500 X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.837.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk All of your installation options are available at www.freebsd.org. Fastest and esiest is to the CD-Rom from www.cdrom.com , but you can also get the fdimage.exe program and the boot.flp file, create a boot disk and install from there (I've always used the CD). Michael G. ---------- From: gstevens@forsythemca.com[SMTP:gstevens@forsythemca.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 1997 11:04 AM To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installing from an MS-DOS partition 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