From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 29 14:59: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atkielski.com (atkielski.com [161.58.232.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69FCB37B406 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 14:59:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by atkielski.com (8.11.6) id f9TMwo625456; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 23:58:50 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <006b01c160cd$4df664c0$0a00000a@contactdish> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: References: <3.0.5.32.20011029080008.00fa6e38@mail.sage-american.com> Subject: Re: Tiny starter configuration for FreeBSD Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 23:59:00 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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 jacks@sage-american.com writes: > One thing that jumped out at me is using > Walnut Creek. It's Wind River; my mistake. Here in Europe, I found a place that sells the Wind River distribution of FreeBSD 4.3. Not the very most recent latest version, but good enough for me. > Mostly, however, why don't you consider getting > the most currect Stable 4.4 version that is up > to date and readily available via download? I tried that, but when I attempted to burn the ISO image to a CD-R, WinOnCD instantly aborted, and did that consistently each time I tried it, so I gave up. Trying to figure out why WinOnCD is blowing up would take more time than it's worth. I figured I'd just pay $30 for a set of CDs instead (trivial compared to the cost of the PC I plan to get to run it, and certainly pale in comparison to the $800 I'd have to pay for a server version of Windows). > Or, simply get the boot floppies and install > via FTP ... No easy way to create boot floppies with Windows NT. And since I'd be installing on a completely blank machine, I'm not sure how I'd be able to FTP anywhere to get the rest. I have a broadband connection that requires that I connect to my provider with PPTP. (Can anyone tell me if there are PPTP drivers for FreeBSD, so that I could connect to the Net over my DSL connection from the UNIX box?) > Your will have to decide if you want Stable > or Current releases... Stable. I exhausted the novelty of upgrading to the very latest release every sixty days many years ago. Indeed, I figure FreeBSD will be more stable than Windows, which seems to be rewritten every twelve months these days. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message