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From: davidf@worf.uucp (David J. Fiander)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Need one bit of clarification on FreeBSD installation.
Date: 7 Dec 1995 16:50:44 GMT
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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According to Ragnar <bowden@cs.odu.edu>:
>get into the setup program, it will ask you how you want to install, ftp 
>is an option, just specify it.  It defaults to freebsd.cdrom.com, with 
>the appropriate directories and locations.  you can change it if you need 
>to.  Good luck.

Of course, if your firewall doesn't let connections through,
you'll have to ftp it manually.  Too bad nothing in any
documentation that I've seen tells you exactly what files you
need.

- David (who managed to figure it out, barely)