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Date:      Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:27:55 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        The Wakefords <wakefords@ameritech.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: About Installation
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980219152701.658M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <34EBCF5E.5C91@ameritech.net>

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On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, The Wakefords wrote:

> Hello,
> I am going to install FreeBSD on my second computer which has now
> internet connection. To install FreeBSD, do I need to be able to connect
> to the internet and download the rest after I boot off of the floppy?

No.  You can:

1.  Download the files to a DOS partition on the computer and pull from
that.
2.  Set up an FTP or NFS server on a local network and pull from that.
3.  You can copy the dist files to floppies.

See ABOUT.TXT and INSTALL.TXT in the release directory for details.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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