Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:27:55 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: The Wakefords <wakefords@ameritech.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About Installation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980219152701.658M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <34EBCF5E.5C91@ameritech.net>
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On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, The Wakefords wrote: > Hello, > I am going to install FreeBSD on my second computer which has now > internet connection. To install FreeBSD, do I need to be able to connect > to the internet and download the rest after I boot off of the floppy? No. You can: 1. Download the files to a DOS partition on the computer and pull from that. 2. Set up an FTP or NFS server on a local network and pull from that. 3. You can copy the dist files to floppies. See ABOUT.TXT and INSTALL.TXT in the release directory for details. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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