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Date:      Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:13:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Tomas Marklund <f95-tmd@sm.luth.se>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Installation over modem.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980422171239.8428b-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.95.980422090803.5021A-100000@jota94.sm.luth.se>

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On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Tomas Marklund wrote:

> If I install FreeBSD over modem, how many bytes does it download? I'd like
> to estimate the time it would take. I WILL install FreeBSD this summer
> (I'm buying a new computer and I just have to have some UNIX OS on it).

It's several megabytes.  The bin distribution and the boot floppy image
(one 1.44MB file)  are the big culprits. 

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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