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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Installing?
Date: 14 Sep 1995 23:18:09 GMT
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gurilla@iii2.iii.net (Kevin Lewtas) wrote:
> I ftp out to freebsd.cdrom.com, /pub/FreeBSD, and then I have no idea 
>what to get for an installation with Development Tools, 
>ftp,telnet,irc,etc, and a few apps. In Linux, I knew I could get Disks 
>sets A,AP,D,and N to fit these specifications. However, in BSD, I have no 
>idea.

In FreeBSD, this is all done via menus.  Just grab floppies/boot.flp out of
the distribution you're interested in, boot it, follow the instructions.
That's all there is to it!

					Jordan