From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 6 5:47:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bezeqint.net (mail-a.bezeqint.net [192.115.106.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D894514CD0 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 05:47:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sarig@bezeqint.net) Received: from asmodean ([212.25.116.152]) by mail.bezeqint.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.07.30.00.05.p8) with SMTP id <0FNX001162B77H@mail.bezeqint.net> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:47:33 +0200 (IST) Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 15:46:42 +0200 From: Oren Sarig Subject: Re: A Newbie To: ray dean , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <002301bf584c$77d6fc40$987419d4@asmodean> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 Content-type: text/plain; charset="windows-1255" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 References: <20000105223958.24556.cpmta@c004.sfo.cp.net> X-Priority: 3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Go to http://www.freebsd.org/ and choose "Getting FreeBSD" on the left. -- Oren Sarig sarig@bezeqint.net.il ----- Original Message ----- From: ray dean To: Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 12:39 AM Subject: A Newbie > As the subject said I am a newbie, to unix and to the whole ftp thing in geneal. I have no knowledge of ftp or even how to download ftp files. I have wanted to try Linux for a while now but haven't been able to due this lack of knowledge. After doing a little research I found out about FreeBSD, I have done some comparisons and decided that FreeBSD was a better choice, but I'm still faced with the same dilema. I don't however, have the money to buy the cd-rom so I have opted to download from your ftp server. I have tried to download the files I thought I needed, but when opened them they were merely text files. What did I do wrong? Could you please tell which files I need to get started and how to boot from floppies? I was wondering if you could send me some download instructions for ftp. Also, I am currently running Windows95 on a 100mhz system with 16mb of ram this is the system I am planning to install FreeBSD on, in the handbook you say that your OS is compatible with MS-DOS is this also true wit > > > ______________________________________________ > FREE Internet Access in 50 states > http://www.ifreedom.com - Sign Up Now! > Stop Paying Monthly Fees! > > > > 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