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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.webspan.net!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD CD Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 11:28:18 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3246D6C2.794BDF32@FreeBSD.org> References: <3245A9D0.DF4@airmail.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 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: andi@airmail.net Andi Baritchi wrote: > > Is the FreeBSD CD a bootable CD so I don't have to use the floppy? I If you're running DOS with no memory manager (though I believe EMM386, which a few people still use, does work) and CD drivers loaded, you can just type "install" to have it launch from DOS. Otherwise you need to make a boot floppy. > the best place to get the CD ($$$)? If you don't want to pay Walnut Creek CDROM's full price then I suggest looking around your local computer store - many people carry their CDs, at least here in the San Francisco Bay Area they do. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project