Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 16:43:03 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: michael van doren <michael@orex.oe.net.au> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961126164148.2892E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199611260657.QAA02982@orex.oe.net.au>
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On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, michael van doren wrote: > I am installing FreeBSD for the first time from a MS Dos partition, I have > plenty of rom and am wondering which 'DISTS' I should install. Should I > use the ports or packages collection and if so, should I replicate the > directory structure that exists on the WWW server? See the INSTALL.TXT file that is in the release directory for full instructions. To answer your questions though, no, don't get the packages, and no don't replicate the directory structure, follow the instructions in INSTALL.TXT. 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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