Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 07:48:43 -0400 From: "Jonathan Arnold" <jdarnold@buddydog.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Hello Message-ID: <200204290748430369.0D49CFA4@mail.attbi.com> In-Reply-To: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOOEPHCOAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com> References: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOOEPHCOAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>
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>The FBSD 4 CD set is available from many FBSD FTP sites. Many people think >they can just download the ISO image, burn it to CD and away they go. Well >here a news flash for you, it's not that easy. First of all the ISO image >is not supported in the MS/Windows world. Sure you can download it and= burn it Wrong. That's exactly the process I used and it worked just fine. An ISO image is just that - an ISO image, and any reasonable CD writing program should work just fine. I used EZ-CD Creator, but I'm sure all the others will work just fine. >a fast internet connection, (IE: ISDN,DSL,CABLE) to download over. Using= an It is big, of course. So yes, you need to download it on a fast connection. Other sources for it: 1] My local CompUSA had a box, which contained the 4 disk set + 6 disks of (undocumented!) packages, plus the excellent book "Complete FreeBSD". 2] http://www.cheapbytes.com has the 4 disk set of $12.99 + s&h 3] The new book "FreeBSD Unleashed" has 2 CDs in it, the 4.5 & 5.0 installs CDs. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog: http://jdarnold.tzo.com/FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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