From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 7 16:14:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fep4-orange.clear.net.nz (fep4-orange.clear.net.nz [203.97.32.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26CB337B65D for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 16:14:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from davids3 (b001-m012-p043.chch.clear.net.nz [203.167.204.235]) by fep4-orange.clear.net.nz (1.5/1.7) with SMTP id NAA03497; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 13:13:58 +1300 (NZDT) From: "David Simon" To: Subject: Obtaining CD Installation over the Internet Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 13:13:54 +1300 Message-ID: <000001c09164$14f01790$a71ea8c0@davids3> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I am a long-time Windows user who is interested in learning/using FreeBSD. I live in New Zealand, and found the local mirror site for the downloads. While I have used Unix (Solaris) at university a bit, I don't know enough about what 'bits' I need to do a default install. I downloaded what I thought I would need, and burned it to a CD, but the installation wouldn't work - it was missing some files. I attempted to download the whole site, but over my 56K modem that was going to take weeks!!! Is there a site (preferable close to NZ or Australia - for performance reasons) that has ISO CD images (for a default install) to download - i.e. download 2-3 650MB files, burn them to CD, then install. This way I don't need to guess what files I need, and hopefully can get my learning underway. Thanks in advance, David Simon, Soon-to-be FreeBSD User. P.S. By 'default install', I mean enough so that I can run a window manager, web browser, email client and possibly a web server (apache?). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message