Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 05:40:47 -0500 From: NOC-IPAD <sysadmin@greeves.mfn.org> To: "rafie@innocent.com" <rafie@innocent.com>, "'Thomas Dean'" <tomdean@ix.netcom.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Availability & Cost Message-ID: <01BDAAFC.20656B80@noc.mfn.org>
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This is not a bad thought, with the one caveat: DON'T use the main freebsd site. This is from personal experience. Also, Like rafie, I downloaded the entire tree in advance, just to make sure I would have a FAST retry interval if something went wrong. It's also nice for loading multiple machines: why use the bandwidth thirty times when you can use it once? I would NOT seriously recommend that anybody use the net FTP install method - on *any* site - unless they are running a hell of a lot faster than 56k.... Just MHO... J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org ---------- From: Thomas Dean Sent: Thursday, July 09, 1998 12:11 AM To: rafie@innocent.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Availability & Cost 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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