Re: Regarding DVD/CD request
2009/3/2 RAMASUBRAMANIAN VENKITESWARAN ramanvenkatam...@gmail.com: SIr, Thank You very much Ah, meant to ask you. Do you want the 32-bit version or the 64-bit? If you want to use accelerated graphics, Java, or flash you're better off with the 32-bit version. If you're happy with the 32-bit version (should be fine for anything really) I'll send you FreeBSD-7.1-RELEASE. Chris -- R $h ! $- ! $+ $@ $2 @ $1 .UUCP. (sendmail.cf) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Regarding DVD/CD request
Sir/Madam, I am a student studying in an Indian University.I recently heard of FREE BSD Operating system.To have a try on the Operating system I tried to download it.But,I could not download the Operating system,since it is bulky.Can you send DVD/CDs of Free BSD by mail? Please Reply. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Regarding DVD/CD request
2009/2/28 RAMASUBRAMANIAN VENKITESWARAN ramanvenkatam...@gmail.com: Sir/Madam, I am a student studying in an Indian University.I recently heard of FREE BSD Operating system.To have a try on the Operating system I tried to download it.But,I could not download the Operating system,since it is bulky.Can you send DVD/CDs of Free BSD by mail? Please Reply. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Sure thing, It'd be a pleasure, just tell me where to send it to, and the release. Are you sure you're OK to run it though? An internet connection is almost mandatory... Chris -- R $h ! $- ! $+ $@ $2 @ $1 .UUCP. (sendmail.cf) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Regarding DVD/CD request
RAMASUBRAMANIAN VENKITESWARAN wrote: Can you send DVD/CDs of Free BSD by mail? AFAIK no. You can download *-RELEASE-i386-bootonly which is small in size and give you an option to install over the internet i.e you boot from it and if you want to install anything - base, kernel, man, src etc.. it fetch it over the internet from the ftp note that you can use and http.. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Regarding DVD/CD request
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Sure thing, It'd be a pleasure, just tell me where to send it to, and the release. Are you sure you're OK to run it though? An internet connection is almost mandatory... not that much. a DVD with a lots of packages, base system and system sources (at least kernel) should be enough. even if something has to be downloaded, it won't be that much. I don't know how does internet access in india looks, but if still mostly pay-per-time they i fully understand a problem. but if it's not pay-per-time it could be possible to install it over 33kbps links with boot CD. slow but managable ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Regarding DVD/CD request
On Feb 28, 2009, at 12:49 AM, RAMASUBRAMANIAN VENKITESWARAN wrote: Sir/Madam, I am a student studying in an Indian University.I recently heard of FREE BSD Operating system.To have a try on the Operating system I tried to download it.But,I could not download the Operating system,since it is bulky.Can you send DVD/CDs of Free BSD by mail? Please Reply. __ Yes, it is bulky for some of us. Not as bulky as an uncontrolled auto update from Apple or Microsoft but still bulky. Dial-up is most likely impractical and satellite risky. One has to presume that you need nearly the entire installation and whether you download the small disk and then add other installations or just download the entire disk one, you still end up using more bandwidth than a satellite connection wants to give you within a 24 hour period. On some satellite ISPs, it's practically impossible to get FreeBSD downloaded if you have much other additional communication present on your connection. I have gone through the pain of using ftp reget to download 200MB per day to get a new complete installation CD. This avoids overrunning your quota but if you forget it's running, the provider will shut you down for the day and most likely when throttled, your download will eventually fail (at least with Hughes, communications become unreliable when they throttle your connections). You may extend the throttled time out for days if you leave the download running after they apply the limits. A good approach is to purchase the CD from FreeBSD Mall or one of the places shown on the http://www.freebsd.org/where.html page. I have done this before and it takes about the same amount of time for shipping as screwing around with reget within FTP. It also supports FreeBSD. Once you have this CD, you install and then immediately set up your cvsup to upgrade the sources with whatever has changed since the CD was made and then rebuild the world as shown in the Handbook. Upgrading the sources and ports from your base CD may take a day depending on your hardware but I've never blown my quota doing it this way (versus forgetting I have the ftp running trying to download an installation disk). From then on, you just keep cvsup'ing across major and minor releases and bandwidth throttles aren't an issue if you are careful. Major releases will obviously use more bandwidth but it's not been bad with cvsup. I've done several upgrades from 5 to 6, 6 to 7 etc all on the satellite without blowing my fair use policy. By contrast, I can't do one Apple upgrade for 10.5, it's quite hopeless at 675 unregulated MBs. If you use a large number of large ports the experience might be different. I don't use X windows and I would bet those downloads are nasty during port upgrades. I know of no solution for that if you are saddled with an unreliable ISP. _ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Regarding DVD/CD request
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 2:19 PM, RAMASUBRAMANIAN VENKITESWARAN ramanvenkatam...@gmail.com wrote: Sir/Madam, I am a student studying in an Indian University.I recently heard of FREE BSD Operating system.To have a try on the Operating system I tried to download it.But,I could not download the Operating system,since it is bulky.Can you send DVD/CDs of Free BSD by mail? Please Reply. Where in India? There are people on the list from India, if you specify the location more accurately possibly someone from nearby location could send you the required CD/DVD's and provide guidance on starting up with FreeBSD, as well. -- The odds are a million to one against your being one in a million. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
