From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 6 17:19: 0 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 6 17:18:43 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from harumscarum.mr.itd.umich.edu (harumscarum.mr.itd.umich.edu [141.211.125.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A209D37B400 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 17:18:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com (c1129767-a.elnsng1.mi.home.com [24.183.248.20]) by harumscarum.mr.itd.umich.edu (8.9.3/3.3s) with SMTP id UAA20262; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 20:18:41 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen To: "JSMolinaro" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting Started Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 20:22:42 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0101062022420A.07534@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, everything yo uneed really is at www.freebsd.org Especially http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html On Saturday January 06, 2001 22:58, you wrote: > > I'm just getting started with FreeBSD and Unix and I basically know > close to nothing right now. I have been reading as much as I can and > there is a great abount of help provided. I was just wondering > exactly how to download FreeBSD, it seems I just coppy the file > or.... I have a dial-up connection and it doesn't seem that there is > going to be and easy install or .exe file to click on. FreeBSD is not a windows program that runs. It is an operating system like windows and you must boot your computer into it to install it. There are many methods of downloading and installing it. All are mentioned in the handbook above. > > I'm sorry is this is a waste of time but please help me get started. > > Thanks > > JSMolinaro ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message