From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 17 9:27: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from houston.matchlogic.com (houston.matchlogic.com [205.216.147.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF99C15655 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 09:26:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crandall@matchlogic.com) Received: by houston.matchlogic.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 10:27:03 -0600 Message-ID: <64003B21ECCAD11185C500805F31EC0303786D44@houston.matchlogic.com> From: Charles Randall To: "Arthur H. Johnson II" , Gregory Tarnowski Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: One large file for FreeBSD Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 10:26:56 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG One warning, -current probably isn't for someone wanting to give FreeBSD "a try". http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cutting-edge.html If you've got a good network connection, I'd suggest an FTP install of 3.2-Release instead. Just download the two floppies and you're set. Charles -----Original Message----- From: Arthur H. Johnson II [mailto:arthur@tucows.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 8:48 AM To: Gregory Tarnowski Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: One large file for FreeBSD There is an ISO image of the development version of FreeBSD. The URL is ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO/i386/4.0-19990705-CURRENT. I have been using it on three different workstations and have had absolutely no problems. Its as stable as any Linux Distro ;) Arthur H. Johnson II http://www.linuxberg.com Linuxberg Manager arthur@tucows.com On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Gregory Tarnowski wrote: > Hi, > > I heard about FreeBSD from one of my instructors and wanted to give it > a try. I see that there are a lot of different files and directories > on the FTP site and am unsure of what I need. I would prefer to > download one large .ZIP or compressed file containing the entire > distribution. Do you have such a file for downloading. I have a > fractional T1 and would prefer to get the whole set of files in one > download. > > Any info would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. > > Greg Tarnowski > g_tarnowski@yahoo.com > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message