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Tony_photoplus
January 11th, 2009, 18:42
I have been looking at FreeBSD to load but am unsure about downloading it. I know that a standard 2.2GHz AMD machine like mine would download the i386 version, but there seems to be several downloads?? Do I need to download all of them and the unload each one to a separate disk or onto one disk. I usually put it on a DVD disk and its usually fine from others I have tried.

Looking forward to your advice

Thanks

Tony
ale
January 11th, 2009, 19:01
You can get the 7.1-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz gzipped image.
If you have a good internet connection you can get just the 7.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso and then install additional packages from the ftp servers.
graudeejs
January 11th, 2009, 19:03
what do you mean by several download
pick architecture [i386 if you got 32bit or 64bit CPU. amd64 if you got 64bit cpu, and want 64bit system, ore you have 4+GB ram]
download cd/dvd [i suggest dvd]
Figure out if FreeBSD going to be the only OS on HDD
install accordingly

and read handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/)
Installing FreeBSD (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html)
Tony_photoplus
January 11th, 2009, 20:39
This is what I see and this is what is confusing me.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3093/3188911970_6584fcb3ee_o.jpg

Thanks for your help
graudeejs
January 11th, 2009, 20:41
nothing confusing....
get dvd burn install
;)
ale
January 11th, 2009, 20:47
Get this one:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/7.1/7.1-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz

It's the gzipped dvd iso image.
Tony_photoplus
January 11th, 2009, 20:47
Ok sorted thanks. Sorry just get easily confused as I take morphine every day. Thanks for your help.
tangram
January 11th, 2009, 22:14
Just forget to extract the ISO from the archive.