From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 20 14:58:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9FA2814EAE for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 14:58:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [208.219.234.24] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id ba480247 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 17:57:45 -0500 Message-ID: <385EB4B6.6158B5D@twave.net> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 17:59:02 -0500 From: Walter Brameld X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremy Shaffner Cc: John Estess , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-stable wannabe tester References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeremy Shaffner wrote: > On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, John Estess wrote: > > > > If you want to test installation of stable, there are places you can > > > download install snapshots. > > > > I have a 26400 bps connection to the world. No kidding. I can CVSup, but > > downloading images is not an option in my current environment. > > He wasn't talking images. He means you can do an FTP install of a > snapshot just like you can for a full -RELEASE. > > -Jeremy > > -=========================================================================- > Jeremy Shaffner JORSM Internet, Regional Internet Services > System Administrator 7 Area Codes in Chicagoland and NW Indiana > jer@jorsm.com 100Mbps+ Connectivity, 56K-DS3, V.90, ISDN > support@jorsm.com Quality Service, Affordable Prices > http://www.jorsm.com Serving Gov't, Business, Individuals Since 1995 > -=========================================================================- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message I did a full install at 28,800. Being a newbie I had to do a number of installs, so I found the best thing to do was ftp all the files to my MSDOS disk, and use that for the installation media. cvsup took care of the rest. (If you're interested, I think the ftp install took about 7 or 8 hours.) Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message