Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 09:02:45 -0500 From: Walter Brameld <brameld@twave.net> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, "Ronald G. Arnold Jr." <rarnold@colemantx.com> Cc: <Fravlahua@aol.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: how many? Message-ID: <00021209032502.03943@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> In-Reply-To: <8666vusk3f.fsf@hades.hell.gr> References: <3b.f43b34.25d5fadd@aol.com> <001d01bf74f3$18f5cc60$997b403f@ronaldjr> <8666vusk3f.fsf@hades.hell.gr>
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On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > "Ronald G. Arnold Jr." <rarnold@colemantx.com> writes: > > > I would agree with Craig Burgess. I too, am new to FreeBSD and also > > getting away from Linux. > > Well, then welcome to FreeBSD! Both of you. > > > I can't afford the CDs and can't seem to get it by booting with the > > boot floppies and ftping from freebsd.com, so I've been ftping all the > > files from there and saving them in Windows and have been downloading > > for 5 days so far, day and night. > > > I use a dial up connection and only achieve a 28.8k, so I can't get > > much at a time. I was told that it would require about 25 floppies, > > or install from a DOS partition. > > I don't have a much better modem than you. Mine's also a 28.8 Kbit/s > modem, but the installation of the basic "bin" package, the "doc" and > "ports", along with the statically linked binaries of "cvsup" took a > little less than 4 hours. > > After that I had a really minimal install, but it was a FreeBSD system > running there. Another night's run to CVSup all the sources and the > ports, and I had an updated kernel and "world". > > It certainly sounds better than having to download the entire thing, > which will probably need a lot more days than just 5. > I did an X-user install via ftp at 28.8. Took around 7 hours. -- Walter in·tel·lec·tu·al n. Someone who has been educated past his/her level of intelligence. If you were wondering, the answer is 42. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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