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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!hookup!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!gateway From: gurban1@gl.umbc.edu (Gregory Urban) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Installing FreeBSD Date: 3 Mar 1994 18:54:38 -0500 Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Lines: 23 Sender: daemon@news.umbc.edu Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9403031855.A11983-0100000@umbc9.umbc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.umbc.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Some of my question may be covered in the FAQ, and if so I apologize for not seeing/understanding all of the details. Here is my situation. I wish to install FreeBSD on my hard drive. Currently I have 2 Seagate SCSI drives. One drive is being used for DOS (because I have no BSD yet ;-) ), and the other will be used exclusively for BSD. The BSD drive has been low-level formatted, and not touched by fdisk. What I want to do is download BSD from a machine at school. From my account I can access the entire FreeBSD distribution (both source and binary). I access my account from my house using Dos 5.0 and Procomm Plus 2.11, a Sportster 14.4 modem, and normally I download using sz. The drive with Dos has about 130 meg of free space (the BSD drive has a capacity of 330 meg). Since I do not need to use FTP, what would be the best way to get the FreeBSD distribution up and running on my PC. Thanks in advance for all help. Please feel free to either post, or directly e-mail my account. The gurban1@gl address is preferred. Greg U | gurban1@gl.umbc.edu | gurban1@umbc8.umbc.edu | Don't force it ... use a bigger hammer!