Downloading FreeBSD

[Marcus Meng]

Has anyone ever considered setting up a bittorrent tracker for FreeBSD
distributions?
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Re: Downloading FreeBSD

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2004-10-05 21:06, Marcus Meng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone ever considered setting up a bittorrent tracker for FreeBSD
> distributions?

The usual methods (FTP, CVS, CVSup) work fine so far.  What would that
gain for the end-user who's sitting on a slow dialup link somewhere?

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Re: Downloading FreeBSD

[Troy Mills]

The "gain" for dialup users would be indirect but ultimately everyone
would benefit. Those who chose to do CVSup and download ISOs from the
FTP server may see an indirect gain in speed as the bandwidth load
(from those downloading ISO's) would distributed to the people who
wish to help seed the torrent. It would obviously be a bigger help
around the time when new versions come out and the servers are being
hammered.

I'm not sure if that explanation was clear or not but it seems obvious
to me what the bonuses would be.



On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:52:06 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2004-10-05 21:06, Marcus Meng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Has anyone ever considered setting up a bittorrent tracker for FreeBSD
> > distributions?
> 
> The usual methods (FTP, CVS, CVSup) work fine so far.  What would that
> gain for the end-user who's sitting on a slow dialup link somewhere?
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Downloading FreeBSD

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2004-10-05 10:04, Troy Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:52:06 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 2004-10-05 21:06, Marcus Meng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Has anyone ever considered setting up a bittorrent tracker for FreeBSD
> > > distributions?
> >
> > The usual methods (FTP, CVS, CVSup) work fine so far.  What would that
> > gain for the end-user who's sitting on a slow dialup link somewhere?

> The "gain" for dialup users would be indirect but ultimately everyone
> would benefit. Those who chose to do CVSup and download ISOs from the
> FTP server may see an indirect gain in speed as the bandwidth load
> (from those downloading ISO's) would distributed to the people who
> wish to help seed the torrent. It would obviously be a bigger help
> around the time when new versions come out and the servers are being
> hammered.

Please don't use top-posting :-/
Especially when part of the thread is already using bottom-posting.

I'm asking because I don't know:

a) What a bittorrent tracker is.
b) What it takes to install and set up one.
c) Why would I prefer it over FTP/CVSup?

Your reply to c) seems to be "to save bandwidth".  The next logical
question is "how is bandwidth saved and who is it saved from"?

> I'm not sure if that explanation was clear or not but it seems obvious
> to me what the bonuses would be.

Not very, but I've seen BitTorrent being mentioned quite a few times in
the past.  I'm asking what it is, why one would use it, how it would be
set up in order to learn more about BitTorrent.
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Re: Downloading FreeBSD

[nbco]

On Tuesday 05 October 2004 17:08, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2004-10-05 10:04, Troy Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:52:06 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas
> >
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On 2004-10-05 21:06, Marcus Meng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Has anyone ever considered setting up a bittorrent tracker for
> > > > FreeBSD distributions?
> > >
> > > The usual methods (FTP, CVS, CVSup) work fine so far.  What would that
> > > gain for the end-user who's sitting on a slow dialup link somewhere?
> >
> > The "gain" for dialup users would be indirect but ultimately everyone
> > would benefit. Those who chose to do CVSup and download ISOs from the
> > FTP server may see an indirect gain in speed as the bandwidth load

> I'm asking because I don't know:
>
> a) What a bittorrent tracker is.
> b) What it takes to install and set up one.
> c) Why would I prefer it over FTP/CVSup?
>
> Your reply to c) seems to be "to save bandwidth".  The next logical
> question is "how is bandwidth saved and who is it saved from"?

snip
> I've seen BitTorrent being mentioned quite a few times in
> the past.  I'm asking what it is, why one would use it, how it would be
> set up in order to learn more about BitTorrent.

Bittorrent is a type of p2p protocol: http://bittorrent.com/introduction.html 
Bittorrent would take the pressure off the servers as those who use it would 
effectively be getting the isos from those that already have them on their 
own boxes, in short it cuts the servers out of the picture therefore reducing 
congestion.  It's in ports. I use: /usr/ports/net/py-bittornado
home page: http://bittornado.com/

When you seed a torrent, you make your file, whether it is an iso, text etc 
available to the bittorrent community. Most bittorrent clients will do this 
for you.  If you do not seed a torrent. it will not be available to the 
bittorrent comunity even though the isos are on your machine. Other p2p 
networks don't require this tagging and so any files that you wish to share 
are available to the p2p users.

The reduction in pressure on the servers would hold true for any of the p2p 
networks I have the 5.2.1. isos on my box, and accessible to the peer 
networks, but as yet have never noticed anyone downloading them.

Once I move to 5.3 I could seed it and we can see whether it is picked up. I 
don't think there is any real reason to seed 5.2.1.
.nbco
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Re: Downloading FreeBSD

[Benjamin Walkenhorst]

nbco wrote:
Bittorrent is a type of p2p protocol: http://bittorrent.com/introduction.html 
Bittorrent would take the pressure off the servers as those who use it would 
effectively be getting the isos from those that already have them on their 
own boxes, in short it cuts the servers out of the picture therefore reducing 
congestion.  It's in ports. I use: /usr/ports/net/py-bittornado
home page: http://bittornado.com/

 

[...]
Once I move to 5.3 I could seed it and we can see whether it is picked up. I 
don't think there is any real reason to seed 5.2.1.
 

If it offers the kind of performance edonkey offers, I won't use it.
Unless the server were in real trouble when a new release comes out.
But then again, there are lots of mirrors.
Where I live (Germany), I usually get 180 kb./sec and more from a local 
mirror.

That doesn't mean it's a bad idea. P2P could be a very powerful tool for
distributing free software, documentation, patches...
On the other hand security comes to mind. But wait, you can still get your
checksums from the server. But for anything you get from a source as 
trustworthy
as a P2P network, you *want* to use checksums. =)

..nbco
Kind regards,
Benjamin
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Re: Downloading FreeBSD

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2004-10-05 16:35, nbco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 October 2004 17:08, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > I'm asking because I don't know:
> >
> > a) What a bittorrent tracker is.
> > b) What it takes to install and set up one.
> > c) Why would I prefer it over FTP/CVSup?
> >
> > Your reply to c) seems to be "to save bandwidth".  The next logical
> > question is "how is bandwidth saved and who is it saved from"?

> Bittorrent is a type of p2p protocol: http://bittorrent.com/introduction.html

Ah, I see.  Many thanks...

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Trouble Downloading FreeBSD

[Ahmed XP]

Hi All,

QUESTION:
Why servers containing FeeBSD installations don't support broken downloads? Is there 
any workaround to this problem? Is this something to do with security or something 
like that?

 

I tried first image but it was disconnected at about 135 MB and later file transfer 
started from begining. I live in Pakistan and there are frequent disconnections. So 
downloading such huge files is a very big ask. I have to download FreeBSD from web as 
there is no other feasible way. 

Regards,
Ahmed



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Trouble Downloading FreeBSD

[Ahmed XP]

Hi All,

QUESTION:
Why servers containing FeeBSD installations don't support broken downloads? Is there 
any workaround to this problem? Is this something to do with security or something 
like that?

 

I tried first image but it was disconnected at about 135 MB and later file transfer 
started from begining. I live in Pakistan and there are frequent disconnections. So 
downloading such huge files is a very big ask. I have to download FreeBSD from web as 
there is no other feasible way. 

Regards,
Ahmed



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Downloading FreeBSD 4.7

[Nowman]

Hello,
Will you please let me know any website to download the FreeBSD version 4.7. I really 
appreciate your response. I went to the freebsd.org to download but it asks for the 
password for ftp. I tried USA and UK sites.
 
Thanks,
 
Nowman
 
 


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Re: Trouble Downloading FreeBSD

[Chuck Swiger]

Ahmed XP wrote:
Hi All,
Hi--

QUESTION:
Why servers containing FeeBSD installations don't support broken
downloads?  Is there any workaround to this problem?  Is this something to
do with security or something like that?
Which FTP server were you using, and how did you retry?
ftp.freebsd.com supports the FTP "reget" command fine, as shown below.
--
-Chuck
ftp> get ls-lR.gz
local: ls-lR.gz remote: ls-lR.gz
227 Entering Passive Mode (62,243,72,50,198,156)
150 Data connection accepted from 129.44.43.88:4859; transfer starting 
for ls-lR.gz (8135208 bytes).
  3% |* |   308 KB 
01:14 ETA^
C
receive aborted
waiting for remote to finish abort.
450 Socket write to client timed-out.
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection.
360938 bytes received in 3.96 seconds (89.09 KB/s)
ftp> reget ls-lR.gz
Not connected.
ftp> open ftp.freebsd.com
Connected to ftp.beastie.tdk.net.
220-ftp.FreeBSD.org NcFTPd Server (licensed copy) ready.
220-The FreeBSD mirror at TDC, in Aarhus, Denmark, Europe
220-
220-Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
220-
220-Use wisely.
220-
220-
220-
220-Please check the below URL to see if you have a closer mirror,
220-especially during releases of new versions of FreeBSD, the load
220-on this server can be quite high, and it's likely that you will
220-get better transfer rates from your local mirror.
220-
220-
220-
220-Specifically should all mirrors not mirroring directly from the master
220-repository choose a different host than this to mirror from, for the
220-reasons mentioned above, I should also add that all tier 1 mirrors have
220-exactly the same access to the master repository as ftp.FreeBSD.org
220-
220-
220
Name (ftp.freebsd.com:cswiger): ftp
331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
Password:
230-You are user #245 of 450 simultaneous users allowed.
230-
230 Logged in anonymously.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> cd pub/FreeBSD
250-"/pub/FreeBSD" is new cwd.
250-
250-If you're looking for one of the FreeBSD releases, please look in the
250-releases/${ARCH}/${RELNAME} directory, where ARCH = "i386" or "alpha"
250-for Intel and DEC Alpha architecture machines and RELNAME = the release
250-you're interested in, e.g. "3.5.1-RELEASE" or "4.2-RELEASE".
250-
250
ftp> ls
227 Entering Passive Mode (62,243,72,50,198,235)
150 Data connection accepted from 129.44.43.88:4861; transfer starting.
drwxr-xr-x   6 ftpuser  ftpusers   512 Jan  6 20:10 CERT
lrwxrwxrwx   1 ftpuser  ftpusers15 Jun  1  2001 CTM -> 
development/CTM
lrwxrwxrwx   1 ftpuser  ftpusers17 Jun  1  2001 CVSup -> 
development/CVSup
lrwxrwxrwx   1 ftpuser  ftpusers17 Jun  1  2001 FreeBSD-current 
-> branches/-current
lrwxrwxrwx   1 ftpuser  ftpusers19 Jun  1  2001 FreeBSD-stable 
-> branches/4.0-stable
lrwxr-xr-x   1 ftpuser  ftpusers25 Dec 10 03:10 ISO-IMAGES-alpha 
-> releases/alpha/ISO-IMAGES
lrwxrwxrwx   1 ftpuser  ftpusers24 Aug 18  2001 ISO-IMAGES-i386 
-> releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES
lrwxr-xr-x   1 ftpuser  ftpusers24 Nov 21 03:10 ISO-IMAGES-ia64 
-> releases/ia64/ISO-IMAGES
lrwxr-xr-x   1 ftpuser  ftpusers24 Jan 19 06:10 ISO-IMAGES-pc98 
-> releases/pc98/ISO-IMAGES
lrwxr-xr-x   1 ftpuser  ftpusers27 Nov 29 15:12 
ISO-IMAGES-sparc64 -> releases/sparc64/ISO-IMAGES
-rw-r--r--   1 ftpuser  ftpusers  6254 Nov  5 17:11 README.TXT
drwxr-xr-x   2 ftpuser  ftpusers   512 Nov  7 20:10 TrustedBSD
drwxr-xr-x   3 ftpuser  ftpusers   512 Jan 22 00:55 branches
drwxr-xr-x   8 ftpuser  ftpusers   512 Jan 22 00:45 development
-rw-r--r--   1 ftpuser  ftpusers 16704 Mar 27 14:26 dir.sizes
lrwxrwxrwx   1 ftpuser  ftpusers15 Jun  1  2001 distfiles -> 
ports/distfiles
drwxr-xr-x  18 ftpuser  ftpusers  1536 Mar 12 15:23 doc
-rw-r--r--   1 ftpuser  ftpusers   8135208 Mar 27 14:21 ls-lR.gz
drwxr-xr-x   2 ftpuser  ftpusers   512 Apr  3  2002 misc
drwxr-xr-x   8 ftpuser  ftpusers   512 Apr  6  2002 ports
drwxr-xr-x   7 ftpuser  ftpusers   512 Jan 22 01:24 releases
drwxr-xr-x   4 ftpuser  ftpusers   512 Nov  4 15:31 snapshots
drwxr-xr-x   5 ftpuser  ftpusers  1024 Jan 28  2002 tools
drwxr-xr-x   2 ftpuser  ftpusers   512 Nov  5 20:14 updates
226 Listing completed.
ftp> reget ls-lR.gz
local: ls-lR.gz remote: ls-lR.gz
227 Entering Passive Mode (62,243,72,50,198,247)
350 Will attempt to restart at position 360938.
150 Data connection accepted from 129.44.43.88:4862; transfer starting 
for ls-lR.gz (8135208 bytes).
 29% |**|  2317 KB 
00:51 ETA^C

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Re: Downloading FreeBSD 4.7

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> Hello,
> Will you please let me know any website to download the FreeBSD version 4.7. 
> I really appreciate your response. I went to the freebsd.org to download 
> but it asks for the password for ftp. I tried USA and UK sites.

Have you ever used anonymous ftp before?
You log in with the name 'snonymous' and then put your Email address as
the password.

jerry

>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Nowman
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Re: Downloading FreeBSD 4.7

[Henrik Hudson]

On Wednesday 02 July 2003 11:55, Nowman wrote:
> Hello,
> Will you please let me know any website to download the FreeBSD version
> 4.7. I really appreciate your response. I went to the freebsd.org to
> download but it asks for the password for ftp. I tried USA and UK sites.

Any reason you aren't using 4.8? That's the current release.

What are you using for an FTP client?  ftp.freebsd.orgshould let you in
using the anonymous user.  You can also order a CD set if you want from
www.freebsdmall.com


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Re: Downloading FreeBSD 4.7

[Nowman]

Thanks for your help. I was able to get in. Will you be able to tell me how to get the 
complete install CD downloaded. I tried to look around but could not find any place to 
download the whole install CD from the web.
 
Any help is highly appreciated.
 
Thanks,
 
Nowman
 


Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> Will you please let me know any website to download the FreeBSD version 4.7. 
> I really appreciate your response. I went to the freebsd.org to download 
> but it asks for the password for ftp. I tried USA and UK sites.

Have you ever used anonymous ftp before?
You log in with the name 'snonymous' and then put your Email address as
the password.

jerry

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Nowman

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Re: Downloading FreeBSD 4.7

[Joshua Oreman]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 03:14:32PM -0700 or thereabouts, Nowman wrote:
> Thanks for your help. I was able to get in. Will you be able to tell
> me how to get the complete install CD downloaded. I tried to look
> around but could not find any place to download the whole install CD
> from the web.

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/4.7/4.7-mini.iso
-- is the smallest install image. You can download the others
   in that directory for more packages. But *DON'T* download
   both the mini.iso and the disc1.iso! (the disc1.iso contains mini.iso).

However, FreeBSD 4.8 came out a little while back; don't you want that?
The address is:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/4.8/4.8-RELEASE-i386-mini.iso
(or 4.8-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso)

-- Josh

>  
> Any help is highly appreciated.
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Nowman
>  
> 
> 
> Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > Will you please let me know any website to download the FreeBSD version 4.7. 
> > I really appreciate your response. I went to the freebsd.org to download 
> > but it asks for the password for ftp. I tried USA and UK sites.
> 
> Have you ever used anonymous ftp before?
> You log in with the name 'snonymous' and then put your Email address as
> the password.
> 
> jerry
> 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Nowman
> 
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Re: Downloading FreeBSD 4.7

[Alex de Kruijff]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 01:18:35PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > Will you please let me know any website to download the FreeBSD version 4.7. 
> > I really appreciate your response. I went to the freebsd.org to download 
> > but it asks for the password for ftp. I tried USA and UK sites.
> 
> Have you ever used anonymous ftp before?
> You log in with the name 'anonymous' and then put your Email address as
> the password.
> 
You may replace 'anonymous' with 'ftp' and can type anything in the 
pasword field.

Alex
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Re: Downloading FreeBSD 4.7

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:22:13AM +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote:
...
>You may replace 'anonymous' with 'ftp' and can type anything in the 
>pasword field.

Custom says to use your e-mail address as the password.  Some anonymous ftp
servers are configured to reject connections with totally bogus passwords
(e.g. mozilla, and the various defaults for Internet Exploder).

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Re: Downloading FreeBSD 4.7

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> Thanks for your help. I was able to get in. Will you be able to tell me 
> how to get the complete install CD downloaded. I tried to look around 
> but could not find any place to download the whole install CD from the web.

First, something you can do to help make your messages more useful and
make it easier for many of us to respond:   Please break your lines
at around 72 characters.   Some Email readers can be configured to
do that.   If yours cannot, then please hit a RETURN/ENTER (however yours
is labeled) at around 70 or characters to start a new line.


Now,  I never use the web interface to get the ISO-s.   I just go in
with ftp to ftp.freebsd.org.   But, the location will be the same.

When you get in, you need to cd to pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/4.8

(It is recommended that you start with V-4.8 and not any of the V-5.X)

In that directory will see 3 ISO files and one CHECKSUM.MD5 file.
Download the file called  4.8-RELEASE-i386-mini-iso
Make sure you are using a binary transfer for that file.
If you are using regular ftp, type the command  'binary'  minus the quotes.
Then, you can also download the file called CHECKSUM.MD5.
If you are doing the ftp from a Microsloth system, then that file
should be downloaded in ASCII text mode (type  'ascii'  while in ftp)
because it is just a text file with the MD5 checksum numbers to use
to verify a good download.   If you accidently download the checksum
file in binary it is no big problem.  It will just have extra CR-s in it.
But, you mush download the ISO in binary mode or it will be junk.

If you are where you can run md5 on the ownloaded ISO, then do it and
compare the number it gives with the one for that file in the checksum
file.  If they are the same the ISO download should be good.

Then, burn the ISO directly as is on to a CD. 

If you are using the whole disk for FreeBSD, you can just proceed.  If
you are trying to dual boot it with Win-something or Linux along with
the FreeBSD, then you will have to slice the drive.   If it already has
the Win-something on it, the easiest thing is to use a program that 
will shrink the Win slice and make room for a FreeBSD slice.  I have
successfully used a utility called Partition Magic.   It is available
for around $50 in most electronics mass market stores like Best Buy, etc.
There are freeware ones, but generally they don't work for XP and NTFS
type file systems, but do just fine with old FAT stuff with Win95-98, etc.

Although you will see lots of warnings about boot sectors needing to 
be in no higher than a certain cylinder on the disk, most modern BIOSes
don't have that problem.   But, if you get things all installed and it
won't boot because it can't find your bootable filesystem, then you 
may have to rethink your disk divisions and put a smaller MS-Win slice
low, then a FreeBSD slice and then the rest of the space for the 
remainder of your MS stuff, or something.   If you enjoy juggling
such thing, you will be in paradise, but I prefer to just have a more
current BIOS.   Some systems have downloadable upgrades available that
will fix the problem.   This is all below the FreeBSd level and must
be decided and fixed before installing FreeBSD.

Of course, the easiest thing is to just blow off the MS-Win stuff and make
the whole machine a FreeBSD machine.  Then, there is no problem.  Just
make one FreeBSD slice covering the whole disk.   You can do all that
during install and choose to make it bootable, etc.

When you get your disk use issues all settled

Pop the CD in to the machine where you want to install FreeBSD and boot 
it off the CD.  You may have to tinker with the BIOS boot order to get 
it to boot from the CD.  It must have the CD before the hard disk in 
the boot order list.

The mini-iso disk is the only one you really need.   It has the entire
installation stuff and knows how to get the rest via ftp.After you 
finish doing the config stuff and carve up the disk, you just select 
installing via FTP and it will download everything you ever need and 
want.  Of course, if you have a slow connection, it will take a while, 
but not really any longer than downloading those other two ISO-s.   

If your connection is too slow to install over, then you should just 
buy the CD set from BSD Mall or one ot the other contributing vendors 
that package a CD set and sell them for a nonimal cost and contribute 
a bit of the revenue to the FreeBSD foundation.

jerry

>  
> Any help is highly appreciated.
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Nowman
> 
> Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > Will you please let me know any website to download the FreeBSD version 4.7. 
> > I really appreciate your response. I went to the freebsd.org to download 
> > but it asks for the password for ftp. I tried USA and UK sites.
> 
> Have you ever used anonymous ftp before?
> You log in with the name 'snonymous' and then put your Email address as
> the password.
> 
> jerry
> 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> 

Re: Downloading FreeBSD 4.7

[DanB]

I have downloaded 4.8ISo and the md5 check sum. Where is the program md5 located?
Can it run onan Window 98 machine to check the check sum number?
Dan

Jerry McAllister wrote:

> >
> > Thanks for your help. I was able to get in. Will you be able to tell me
> > how to get the complete install CD downloaded. I tried to look around
> > but could not find any place to download the whole install CD from the web.
>
> First, something you can do to help make your messages more useful and
> make it easier for many of us to respond:   Please break your lines
> at around 72 characters.   Some Email readers can be configured to
> do that.   If yours cannot, then please hit a RETURN/ENTER (however yours
> is labeled) at around 70 or characters to start a new line.
>
> Now,  I never use the web interface to get the ISO-s.   I just go in
> with ftp to ftp.freebsd.org.   But, the location will be the same.
>
> When you get in, you need to cd to pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/4.8
>
> (It is recommended that you start with V-4.8 and not any of the V-5.X)
>
> In that directory will see 3 ISO files and one CHECKSUM.MD5 file.
> Download the file called  4.8-RELEASE-i386-mini-iso
> Make sure you are using a binary transfer for that file.
> If you are using regular ftp, type the command  'binary'  minus the quotes.
> Then, you can also download the file called CHECKSUM.MD5.
> If you are doing the ftp from a Microsloth system, then that file
> should be downloaded in ASCII text mode (type  'ascii'  while in ftp)
> because it is just a text file with the MD5 checksum numbers to use
> to verify a good download.   If you accidently download the checksum
> file in binary it is no big problem.  It will just have extra CR-s in it.
> But, you mush download the ISO in binary mode or it will be junk.
>
> If you are where you can run md5 on the ownloaded ISO, then do it and
> compare the number it gives with the one for that file in the checksum
> file.  If they are the same the ISO download should be good.
>
> Then, burn the ISO directly as is on to a CD.
>
> If you are using the whole disk for FreeBSD, you can just proceed.  If
> you are trying to dual boot it with Win-something or Linux along with
> the FreeBSD, then you will have to slice the drive.   If it already has
> the Win-something on it, the easiest thing is to use a program that
> will shrink the Win slice and make room for a FreeBSD slice.  I have
> successfully used a utility called Partition Magic.   It is available
> for around $50 in most electronics mass market stores like Best Buy, etc.
> There are freeware ones, but generally they don't work for XP and NTFS
> type file systems, but do just fine with old FAT stuff with Win95-98, etc.
>
> Although you will see lots of warnings about boot sectors needing to
> be in no higher than a certain cylinder on the disk, most modern BIOSes
> don't have that problem.   But, if you get things all installed and it
> won't boot because it can't find your bootable filesystem, then you
> may have to rethink your disk divisions and put a smaller MS-Win slice
> low, then a FreeBSD slice and then the rest of the space for the
> remainder of your MS stuff, or something.   If you enjoy juggling
> such thing, you will be in paradise, but I prefer to just have a more
> current BIOS.   Some systems have downloadable upgrades available that
> will fix the problem.   This is all below the FreeBSd level and must
> be decided and fixed before installing FreeBSD.
>
> Of course, the easiest thing is to just blow off the MS-Win stuff and make
> the whole machine a FreeBSD machine.  Then, there is no problem.  Just
> make one FreeBSD slice covering the whole disk.   You can do all that
> during install and choose to make it bootable, etc.
>
> When you get your disk use issues all settled
>
> Pop the CD in to the machine where you want to install FreeBSD and boot
> it off the CD.  You may have to tinker with the BIOS boot order to get
> it to boot from the CD.  It must have the CD before the hard disk in
> the boot order list.
>
> The mini-iso disk is the only one you really need.   It has the entire
> installation stuff and knows how to get the rest via ftp.After you
> finish doing the config stuff and carve up the disk, you just select
> installing via FTP and it will download everything you ever need and
> want.  Of course, if you have a slow connection, it will take a while,
> but not really any longer than downloading those other two ISO-s.
>
> If your connection is too slow to install over, then you should just
> buy the CD set from BSD Mall or one ot the other contributing vendors
> that package a CD set and sell them for a nonimal cost and contribute
> a bit of the revenue to the FreeBSD foundation.
>
> jerry
>
> >
> > Any help is highly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Nowman
> >
> > Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > > Will you please let me know any website to download the FreeBSD version 4.7.
> > > I 

Re: Downloading FreeBSD 4.7

[Joshua Oreman]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:21:34PM + or thereabouts, DanB wrote:
> I have downloaded 4.8ISo and the md5 check sum. Where is the program md5 located?
> Can it run onan Window 98 machine to check the check sum number?
> Dan

Try here (it was the first one I found):
http://www.pc-tools.net/win32/freeware/md5sums/

-- Josh
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Re: Please send me link for Downloading FreeBSd Trial & FreeBSD On CD

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2003-03-11 04:27, Ahmad Imran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Good Day
> Please send me link for Downloading FreeBSd Trial & obtain FreeBSD
> On CD/DVD etc.

If you look at the front page of www.FreeBSD.org you will easily spot
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