Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 15:24:44 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> Cc: "Mark B. Withers" <mwithers@one.net>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FTP install of FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010114152444.P97980@rfx-64-6-211-149.users.reflexco> In-Reply-To: <002501c07e7c$d19018a0$6100000a@vladsempire.net>; from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net on Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 02:53:31PM -0800 References: <20010114152641.B283@arrakis.desert-power.org> <002501c07e7c$d19018a0$6100000a@vladsempire.net>
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On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 02:53:31PM -0800, Josh Paetzel wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark B. Withers" <mwithers@one.net> > To: "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 12:25 PM > Subject: FTP install of FreeBSD > > > > I have a question. > > > > Has anybody done this? > > > > Yes...people do ftp installs all the time. > > > How does it work? > > > To make a long story short, you boot the freebsd install program off floppy > and then the install program connects to a ftp site and downloads what it > needs to do the install...see the freebsd handbook at > www.freebsd.org/handbook for more details. > > > > Does it take a long time with a DSL connection? > > > > To do a full install downloads about 600 megs or so. I am guessing that is > about 4 hours or so on a typical home DSL. 600MB seems like a lot to me. ftp.freebsd.org lists, 165846 ./releases/i386/4.2-RELEASE That does not include X which would be another 50MB or so and packages which is a meg or two here and there. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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