From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 15 13:16:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA22185 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 13:16:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from keywest.ird.rl.af.mil (KEYWEST.IRD.RL.AF.MIL [128.132.193.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA22171 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 13:16:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by keywest.ird.rl.af.mil with Microsoft Exchange (IMC 4.0.837.3) id <01BCC1F3.1108BBD0@keywest.ird.rl.af.mil>; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 16:18:56 -0400 Message-ID: From: "Goeringer, Michael" To: "'Luciano Uenoyama'" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: Questions Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 16:18:54 -0400 X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.837.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hmmm... I didn't think they still had the two option... if they do, you only need the smaller one... the 2nd includes the first plus manpages which is more of a "nice to have". I haven't ftp'ed them in a while but there is a readme that lists all the files you need for the base distribution. Michael G. ---------- From: Luciano Uenoyama[SMTP:LUCIANO@weissinc.com] Sent: Monday, September 15, 1997 4:10 PM To: Goeringer, Michael; 'Leif Neland' Cc: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Subject: RE: Questions I am looking at the CD to just buy it. Do you think I need the one with the 2 books or just the one will do? Also I get confused with which files to FTP to a dos-partition. Any tips? >---------- >From: Leif Neland[SMTP:leif@leif.roskildebc.dk] >Sent: Monday, September 15, 1997 3:43 PM >To: Goeringer, Michael >Cc: Luciano Uenoyama; 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' >Subject: RE: Questions > > > >On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Goeringer, Michael wrote: > >> As a side note, you may wish to look at www.cdrom.com and get the >> FreeBSD CD-Rom. When I was first learning FreeBSD I must have >> installed it over 20 times(tweaking this and changing that)... the CD >> make it much nicer. > >After trashing the system twice, I ftp'ed the files to a dos-disk. >That also makes a faster re-install from there... > >Leif > >