From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 24 20:20: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monochrome.org (monochrome.org [206.64.112.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAB8437B479 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 20:19:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (faro [192.168.1.7]) by mail.monochrome.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA33354; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 23:19:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 23:19:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill X-Sender: chris@localhost To: Robert & Lori Parker Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I need help!! In-Reply-To: <39F64891.59B969D1@swbell.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Robert & Lori Parker wrote: > A co-worker told me about FreeBSD and how it can be used as a stable > proxy. However I cannot seem to find the place to download the disks > to boot my machine. He told me to download "boot.flp" and "kern.flp". > I hope these are the correct files but if not please inform me of the > proper file names. Those are the correct filenames. You do need to have a working computer in order to create the floppies. If you're using a Win/DOS machine, you'll need the program fdimage.exe. If you have a unix or Linux system, you can use dd. See http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install-guide.html > I could also use some assistance in the setup of my machine it's just > a little 486/75 with 16 or 32 MB RAM, a 650 MB HD, two USRobotics NIC > cards. One is for my DSL modem and the other is for my hub. Any > assistance is greatly appreciated. This should work AFAIK, though you may want to add some RAM depending on what you plan to use the machine for. Sounds like you're building a router/firewall/NATter... One word of advice: on the installs I've done, I've found that the best thing seems to be to install a fairly minimal system at first - source, docs and binaries, but no X or other non-essentials. Then, once I have a bootable system, I run /stand/sysinstall again and add the cool stuff. Plan on eventually making a custom kernel (not hard, just follow the directions). HTH. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org [1] Bus error netscape To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message