Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 22:20:39 +0000 From: Joshua Fielden <shag@concentric.net> To: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net> Cc: Roods <kuth@bluemoon.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbie here Message-ID: <33CFEC37.C89DADBB@concentric.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970718131132.1735C-100000@luke.cpl.net>
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Shawn Ramsey wrote: > > > I'm running 95 right now.. I'd like to install freebsd on my machine. Now I'm trying to get it off the your FTP site but I go there and I get lost.. there are a ton of dirs and files.. I have no idea what I should get... I want the 2.2.2 version.. but I go there and once again.. a ton of stuff... what do I click on to download? > > > > I already have the tools for making the boot disk, I just need to download the actual stuff to my MS-DOS partition to install it.... > > > > > > > > Did you read the Readme and Install.txt? I believe the only neccesary > files are in the "bin" directory. It has been QUITE a while since I havent > installed by FTP, so im not sure. I chose: bin compat* des dict manpages ports src I got all of source because I wanted kernel source, and couldn't remember what was needed for it, but there is a shorter list of source needed to just meet the kern-developer distribution. I have yet to run into anythign I needed that I couldn't build from the ports with this dist, and it only took a overnight at 28.8. I slept, so it could have been less. And yes, all you *need* is bin, but that's a pretty dry system. :-) JF
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