Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:00:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Nathaniel Adkins <nma@quokka.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: files for cd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980422165833.8428R-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980421164004.009f7100@pop.quokka.com>
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On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Nathaniel Adkins wrote: > I'd like to download and create my own personal cd's to intall FreeBSD at > home. Which files do I download? I've downloaded a little over a gig of > files and have noticed that the packages distribution is 677 megs, 27 over > the limit for a cd. You need the distributions you want to be able to install. Obviously bin/ is required, and you probably want floppies/ and tools/ for a one-stop-shop. You grabbed the packages too? Yes, the packages distribution is split over two cds; I think xemacs and ob-something is put on CD 3 in the WC CDROM. > I think it would help greatly if you put a notice up of the proper files > for a CD install since we who have access to a cd burner would be happy to > create our own. And, at under $500 for the hardware, the list of persons > with that capability grows larger every day! I expect to see copy protection resume on commercial software very soon. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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