From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Mar 8 14:12:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7858415309 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 14:12:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from charon@freethought.org) Received: from c40948-a ([24.1.7.99]) by mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail v4.00.03 201-229-104) with SMTP id <19990308221231.MSOO21746.mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com@c40948-a>; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 14:12:31 -0800 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990308141220.00a5a310@mail> X-Sender: tuathadedanann@mail X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 14:12:20 -0800 To: Brad Knowles , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG From: charon@freethought.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Handbook: Installation In-Reply-To: <19990308185824.015680@relay.skynet.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 06:58 PM 3/8/99 +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: > At no time on (or any >page linked to from this one) can I find a single reference as to exactly >where on the FTP server the floppy images are located. ... >I don't >remember how I got the floppy images the first time I installed FreeBSD >on one of our servers, but surely it doesn't have to be this painful. Yes! All the versions I've used (2.2.2 to 3.0) before 3.1 had a direct link to the floppy image(s). What happened?? As someone who only recently got very in touch with the FreeBSD scene, I can attest that newbies are going to be completely confused by this. -charon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message