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Date:      Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:54:33 -0500
From:      "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com>
To:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Olivier Onorato" <sails@halseylidgard.com>
Subject:   Re: Compatibility and CD location
Message-ID:  <199811122158.QAA02886@laker.net>

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On Thu, 12 Nov 1998 14:12:58 -0500, Olivier Onorato wrote:

>Dear sir/madam, I am interested in trying Freebsd. I will need to have the
>equivalent of Sun Microsystems X11 interactive unix. From what I read on
>your web page, it looks like your OS will support some kind of X window. Is
>that correct?

Yes, we have XFree86.

>My next question is where do you get the install CDs from? Also, the
>computer I am planning to install the system on does not have a CD-ROM. Is
>it possible to break the files from a different computer using a zip drive?

You can get the CDs from www.cdrom.com and they have a helpful book
too.

You could also install over the Internet, see:
See http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook7.html#7
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