From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 2 12:12:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BF4515A06 for ; Sun, 2 May 1999 12:11:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tera.com) Received: from athena.tera.com (athena.tera.com [207.224.230.169]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA23194; Sun, 2 May 1999 12:11:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Received: (from kline@localhost) by athena.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA25654; Sun, 2 May 1999 12:11:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199905021911.MAA25654@athena.tera.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD download In-Reply-To: <000101be948f$77575980$9b034382@pc> from Harald Hereid at "May 2, 99 01:32:29 pm" To: hhereid@online.no (Harald Hereid) Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 12:11:50 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL23 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Harald Hereid: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Hi! > After spending some hours reading about FreeBSD at the http://www.freebsd.org/applications.html site, could someone please tell me where in that or toher site I find the file to download for the actual installation of FreeBSD? > Try http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ and spend some time traversing the tree on this root page. You'll be able to download a port tarball which will then fetch and automagically build the individual application. There is no one ``installation'' tarball that will install FreeBSD itself, plug-and-play. The best way to put FreeBSD onto your system is to buy the 4-CD set from Walnut Creek CD. This version of Unix, like every other, requires patience and perseverance, but this (BSD) family is the best I've discovered. Well worth the few days it takes to get familiar with. gary kline > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message