From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 16 13:20:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.urx.com (mail.urx.com [63.170.19.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A04837B405 for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 13:20:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@urx.com) Received: from urx.com [206.159.132.160] by mail.urx.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id AAF8F80242; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 13:20:08 -0700 Message-ID: <3B7C2AF8.A7EF3EE4@urx.com> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 13:20:08 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Stevenson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie who wants to install freeBSD References: <000a01c1268c$0d3c0a00$db4b7bd5@mshome.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Richard Stevenson wrote: > > I was wondering if it would be possible to download all the freeBSD 4.3 > release files from the ftp site and copy them to a CD (using my cd > re-writer) - Would it then work if I followed the "installing from a CD" > tutorial??? Would the files corrupt or not copy in binary format or the > like if i tried to copy them to cd? Find a mirror close to you on http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html Then, setup a path similar to ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/ You download the iso and burn it as image using your cdrom burner. Kent > Cheers > Richard -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message