From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 13 15:23: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A7D537B4C5 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 15:22:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from lucifer ([24.40.50.226]) by femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20001113232241.VDGX14040.femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com@lucifer> for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 15:22:41 -0800 Message-ID: <00a501c04dc8$9e6e4a80$4500a8c0@bens1.pa.home.com> From: "John" To: Subject: Has anyone considered ... Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 18:22:40 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ... the idea of having a CD version of the various FreeBSD installs available for *download* as .iso format disc images? I know there are a couple Linux distros that do this, and it seems like a reasonably sound and simple idea, and a great convenience. Right now I'm up against a problem because the machine which I wish to install FreeBSD on is hooked up to my cable modem. This machine was actually running FreeBSD in the past, but when I hooked it up to the cable modem I decided to try using Windows NT for that machine instead because of the potential problems fiddling around getting the machine to properly authenticate and get an address. My patience with NT is now wearing thin and it's given me the will to research my task and decide to try to get FreeBSD properly configured. The problem however, arises that the machine will not be able to authenticate without some playing around, meaning I CANNOT use the net install. This leaves me with a few options obviously, but it just struck me as I was contemplating how best to go about this install that if I could just download and burn a CD image it would make this process a lot more convenient. I can't imagine that mastering the CD image would be all the difficult a process either, certainly seeming a great trade for the reward in convenience. Of course, regardless of this, thanks to all the FreeBSD people for such an astounding product. -John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message