Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 11:59:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Eswaran Srinivasan <eswar@idc.tandem.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reg. BSD packages ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971023115751.2937M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <9710160830.AA20102@pelican.isd>
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On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Eswaran Srinivasan wrote: > I wish to get Free BSD packages (binary packages) and install on a > PC. I do NOT want the BSD sources. OK, perfectly reasonable. > I have a new PC on which I wish to install free BSD. I could extract > the boot floppy image through the net. It works fine also. I could > boot the system with this floppy. After this it asks for the installation > media. > > I thought of ftp-ing the minimal basic packages (binary packages) > which may include C compiler, X windows etc. But, I am not able to > find the site where I can get this. If you select `ftp' as the install media, it will give you a menu of many possible alternatives. ftp.freebsd.org is the standard default. > Can you please let me know where I can get all the packages ? I > want to ftp those packages, put them on a SCSI tape and install. > Any idea how many such packages are there (I guess it is around 10) > and how much space is required for ftp-ing ? Doing it by tape is a bit trickier since it involves some setup. Reference http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html for more information. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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