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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Where to get BSD?
Date: 22 Jun 1995 21:15:32 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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Message-ID: <3scmhk$f1@park.uvsc.edu>
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ecs120@duke.usask.ca (Erin Chantel Shukin) wrote:
]
] Hi. Sorry for the dumg question, but...
]
] Where and what do I get to run FreeBSD?
]
] I have been on ftp.freebsd.org and looked in /.../2.0.5-RELEASE
]
] but there are so many files...
]
] HELP Please.
The boot floppy image is:
ftp://pub/FreeBSD/2.0.0-RELEASE/UPDATES/boot.flp
The root floppy image (which the boot floppy will ask for) is:
ftp://pub/FreeBSD/2.0.0-RELEASE/floppies/root.flp
Installation instructions are:
ftp://pub/FreeBSD/2.0.0-RELEASE/INSTALL
You write out these images by dd'ing them to a formatted floppy
if you downloaded them to a UNIX or UNIX-clone box, or using
rawrite.exe (just linke Linux) if you downloaded them to DOS.
You can find the DOS rawrite.exe at:
ftp://pub/FreeBSD/tools/dos-tools/rawrite.exe
Other DOS tools are in this same directory (like fips for partition
editing). These tools are are the same as those used in a Linux
install.
The access chain for these images is pretty straight forward, as
long as you read the documents the FTP daemon recommends to you.
Here's how I got to them (with one hiccup, noted below):
| % ftp ftp.freebsd.org
| Connected to wcarchive.cdrom.com.
| 220 wcarchive.cdrom.com FTP server (Version wu-2.4(8) Tue May 30 04:36:07 PDT 1995) ready.
| Name (ftp.freebsd.org:terry): ftp
| 331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
| Password:
| 230-Welcome to wcarchive - home ftp site for Walnut Creek CDROM.
| 230-There are currently 298 users out of 300 possible.
[ ... ]
| 230-
| 230-Please read the file README
| 230- it was last modified on Sun May 7 08:32:33 1995 - 46 days ago
| 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
| Remote system type is UNIX.
| Using binary mode to transfer files.
|ftp> get README |more
[ note command line above ]
| 200 PORT command successful.
| 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for README (1118 bytes).
| Welcome to ftp.cdrom.com, a 100Mhz Pentium system with 128MB of memory and
| 50GB of hard disk storage. This server is running FreeBSD 2.0.5 (The latest
| version of FreeBSD is available in pub/FreeBSD).
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| ftp> cd pub/FreeBSD
| 250-Please read the file README
| 250- it was last modified on Thu Apr 6 04:03:26 1995 - 77 days ago
| 250 CWD command successful.
| ftp> get README |more
| 200 PORT command successful.
| 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for README (394 bytes).
| Most recent additions:
| ----------------------
|
| FAQ New FreeBSD 2.0 FAQ
| 2.0-RELEASE Our latest official release
^^^^^^^^^^^
********************************************************************
********************************************************************
Now this is wrong; it needs to be updated. The actual directory
is now 2.0.5-RELEASE.
********************************************************************
********************************************************************
| 2.0-950210-SNAP February 10th snapshot (bugfix, test) release
| 2.0-950322-SNAP March 22nd snapshot (bugfix, test) release
| FreeBSD-current Current development sources (as always)
| MIRROR.SITES Other (closer?) places for FreeBSD
| commercial Commercial software for FreeBSD
| 226 Transfer complete.
| 394 bytes received in 2.42 secs (0.16 Kbytes/sec)
| ftp> cd 2.0.5-RELEASE
| 250-Please read the file README.TXT
| 250- it was last modified on Sat Jun 10 03:08:38 1995 - 12 days ago
| 250 CWD command successful.
| ftp> get README.TXT |more
| 200 PORT command successful.
| 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for README.TXT (7287 bytes).
| -----------------------------------------
| FreeBSD 2.0.5 --- RELEASE Version , ,
[ ... ]
| ftp> cd floppies
| 250-NOTICE: There is a new boot.flp image in
| 250- /pub/FreeBSD/2.0.5-RELEASE/UPDATES directory. This fixes
| 250- a couple of problems with the origional boot image. If you
| 250- have a 4Mb machine, please use the updated floppy image.
| 250-
| 250 CWD command successful.
| ftp> cd ../UPDATES
| 250-Please read the file README
| 250- it was last modified on Mon Jun 12 00:15:39 1995 - 10 days ago
| ftp> cd ../UPDATES
| 250-Please read the file README
| 250- it was last modified on Mon Jun 12 00:15:39 1995 - 10 days ago
| 250 CWD command successful.
| ftp> get README |more
| 200 PORT command successful.
| 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for README (354 bytes).
| Yes, you guessed it, there are some updates to the alledgedly RELEASE
| set of floppies. The boot.flp will now work on 4Mb mahcines, and
| a bug in the way the mount points of filesystems were handled has
| been fixed. This is the LAST set of floppies which will bear the
| 2.0.5-RELEASE name - any further updates will be for a SNAP release!
| Honest!
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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