From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 12 11: 1:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (unknown [62.253.162.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 399C637B479 for ; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 11:01:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from m897-mp1-cvx1b.gui.ntl.com ([62.252.11.129]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20001112190133.ERKT13163.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@m897-mp1-cvx1b.gui.ntl.com>; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 19:01:33 +0000 Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 19:04:56 +0000 (GMT) From: George Reid X-Sender: geeorgy@sobek.nevernet.net To: Grover Sonnier Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Downloading BSD In-Reply-To: <01C04C96.10E19B00.groversonnier@msn.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Grover Sonnier wrote: > Dear Sir > > I tried downloading FreeBSD from your ftp site to a floppy disk but all I > get is message that the disk is full. Can you tell me what I need to do to > download the files. Each full ISO-style FreeBSD release is approximately 650Mb. A floppy disk holds 1.44Mb. I sense this is your problem. You need to download the bootdisks "kern.flp" and "mfsroot.flp" from the FTP site. Read the instructions on how to create the disks. You do not need to download the entire FreeBSD release to install it - you can install via FTP (or HTTP, or NFS etc) G --- "And then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel was just a freight train, comin' your way." George Reid * greid@ukug.uk.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message