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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: What to install with FreeBSD? Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 12:48:31 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 24 Message-ID: <319B868F.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> References: <4nf96k$m8t@news.indy.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b2 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Ivan Samuelson <bolski@indy.net> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:19510 comp.os.linux.misc:104111 Ivan Samuelson wrote: > I am unsure of what I need to download in order to install. I have the > boot floppy (atapi one), but what dirs under the 2.1.0-RELEASE directory Do you have a dialup or dedicated IP connection? You didn't need anything but the atapi boot floppy if so. Just write that out to disk in raw format (as described in floppies/README) and boot it, it will prompt you for the rest of the distribution choices and fetch everything over the net. > them, but I was curious as to what they were. Specifically, they are the > /commerce, /xperimnt directories, as well as the following files in the > XF86312 directory: XF86-co.tgz and XF86-xc.tgz 1. commercial software (demos, shareware) 2. Experimental bits 3. XFree86 contributed software collection and XFree86 X Consortium sources. A fairly concise "how to install FreeBSD in 5 easy steps" guide can also be found at: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project