From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 13 11:41:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt011n65.san.rr.com [204.210.13.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C65BE14F2B for ; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 11:41:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA91830; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 11:40:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 11:40:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt011n65.san.rr.com To: "Brooks, Reginald P." Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <170261B725E5D111A81C00A0C9B411BE01F35EE8@pwcntexch1.pwcpearl.navy.mil> 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 Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Brooks, Reginald P. wrote: > I have been hearing a little about FreeBSD so I decided to give it try. I > visited your home page and tried to figure out how to download the OS. Your > instructions lead from ftp to ftp with list upon list of files to download > but I could not identify any file that appeared to actually contain the > basic OS or kernal. > > For example. If I am on the following page, > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable > which file or files would I download and install to provide the basic OS? > Your assistance will be greatly appreciated. Way back when I was a new user I was confused by this too. Take a look at ftp://releng3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/3.2-19990813-STABLE/ for the latest version and read the INSTALL.TXT file. Good luck, Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message