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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!zib-berlin.de!uni-duisburg.de!news.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de!moritz From: moritz@math.uni-duesseldorf.de (Moritz D. Klingholz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Download question Date: 3 Jan 1996 01:43:26 GMT Organization: Mathematisches Institut der Heinrich Heine Universitaet Duesseldorf Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4ccmvu$dld@selene.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de> References: <4c2qon$sjr@shellx.best.com> <4c3i8l$139@uriah.heep.sax.de> <30E5E93F.41C67EA6@lcs.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: math.uni-duesseldorf.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Alan Bawden (alan@lcs.mit.edu) wrote: : J Wunsch wrote: : > mikane@shellx.best.com (Michael Landeros) writes: : > > I want to download freebsd from the NET. I know where the ftp : > > sites are but I am a bit confused about which files I should : > > download. If anyone has done this lately I would appreciate some : > > advice. : > : > At first, only download the installation floppy (from : > ../floppies/boot.flp), boot it, and read the instructions. : : And after he does that he'll still be mostly in the dark : about what many of those files are. For example, in XF86312 : the files XF86-co.tgz and XF86-xc.tgz are each over 30 megabytes, : but nothing in the instructions on the boot floppy will : specifically mention those files by name, so there's no way to : be certain what the consequences are of not including them. [...] I installed FreeBSD 2.1 from the net some days ago and can't remember having seen any file name (package names, ok, but not file names). I just picked some installation without source from the install menu (including X) and several packages from the post-install menu. And every thing seems ok (well I once ran out of disk space and removed some packages). Am I doing something wrong? Am I wasting disk space?