From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 12 22:15:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.occa.home.com (ha1.rdc2.occa.home.com [24.2.8.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B11614C80 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 22:15:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rbettle@bandserver.com) Received: from bandserver.com ([24.5.44.161]) by mail.rdc2.occa.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <19990813051451.HCIS7447.mail.rdc2.occa.home.com@bandserver.com>; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 22:14:51 -0700 Message-ID: <37B3AAB1.62A97B32@bandserver.com> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 22:18:41 -0700 From: Roy Bettle X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Brooks, Reginald P." Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: FreeBSD References: <170261B725E5D111A81C00A0C9B411BE01F35EE8@pwcntexch1.pwcpearl.navy.mil> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As a fellow newbie, please allow me to *strongly suggest* that you save yourself a few headaches and buy the 4-CD set from Walnut Creek (http://www.cdrom.com). I have found, and continue to find, that the manual it comes with - not to mention the fact that I don't have to figure out an FTP install - is more than worth the $60 USD or so it costs. RAB "Brooks, Reginald P." wrote: > I have been hearing a little about FreeBSD so I decided to give it try. I > visited your home page and tried to figure out how to download the OS. Your > instructions lead from ftp to ftp with list upon list of files to download > but I could not identify any file that appeared to actually contain the > basic OS or kernal. > > For example. If I am on the following page, > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable > which file or files would I download and install to provide the basic OS? > Your assistance will be greatly appreciated. > > Thank you > Reggie > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- President, bandServer.com rbettle@bandserver.com www.bandserver.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message