Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 22:11:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Dean <tomdean@ix.netcom.com> To: rafie@innocent.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Availability & Cost Message-ID: <199807090511.WAA03614@ix.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <35A43E2E.4C1AC612@innocent.com> (message from Rafie on Wed, 08 Jul 1998 23:51:10 -0400)
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Read the handbook at www.freebsd.org. Part 1, section 2 describes the installation procedure. Please read this carefully. Pay close attention to 'Installing FreeBSD' and 'Before installing over a network'. But, read all of this section before you start. Initially, all you need to download are a couple of files, boot.flp and a tool to write that file to a floppy, fdimage.exe. Make sure you download these two files as binary images! After you create a floppy containing boot.flp, 'fdimage boot.flp a:', you boot your system with this floppy. After you select the options in sysinstall, all the proper files will be downloaded without your help. With a 28.8 modem, this does not take long. Go away, eat, watch TV, etc. You do not have to be in attendance. When the selected distributions are installed, sysinstall will wait for you to do some more work. It will wait forever. So, you do not have to watch it. There is a tutorial for new users at www.freebsd.org/tutorials. Please read the handbook and the tutorial. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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