Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 01:49:00 +0300 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> To: "Ata ur Rehman Alvi" <sneezycrazyturtle@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org>, Ata Rehman Alvi <ata.alvi@giant-stores.com> Subject: Re: NEED HELP Message-ID: <cb5206420701161449x14454cb1w2617be002f61b23e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <75cd2a440701160644w113d7abfl20194e3a6cc7d204@mail.gmail.com> References: <75cd2a440701160644w113d7abfl20194e3a6cc7d204@mail.gmail.com>
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On 1/16/07, Ata ur Rehman Alvi <sneezycrazyturtle@gmail.com> wrote: > HELLO > > I AM A NEWBIE FOR UNIX PLATEFORM, AND I DONT KNOW ABOUT FTP DOWNLOADING > IDEA. WOULD U TELL ME HOW TO DOWNLOAD FREE BSD UNIX AND HOW TO INSTALL, I AM > HAVING NO RESPONSE WHEN I TRY TO DOWNLOAD. AND IN DOCUMENTATION I CANT FIND > MUCH HELP Hi! FreeBSD is not very popular in Saudi Arabia, but there's an increasing amount of interest in the Arab world. There used to be a mirror close to you (ftp://ftp.isu.net.sa/), but FreeBSD is not available from there at the moment. You can download FreeBSD over http from a number of places: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html Just select any mirror with "http" written next to it, for example this one is in Turkey: http://ftp.tr.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ Unfortunately, there's not much documentation on FreeBSD in Arabic, so you'll have to read through our English handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html If you have major difficulty, maybe you should start with FreeBSD-based distributions like PC-BSD or DesktopBSD. They are easier to install for newcomers: http://www.pcbsd.org/ http://www.desktopbsd.net/ http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/pcbsd/1.3/PCBSD-1.3.01-x86-CD1.iso http://62.141.59.55/DesktopBSD/DesktopBSD-1.0-x86-CD.iso My father is very fluent in Arabic, but I'm just starting to convert him from Windows to Unix, so you'll have to wait a few years before he can provide support I guess :-) Good luck!
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