Re: A seasoned (but pig-ignorant) IT bod here

peter g <peter.gasparro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am (maybe was) looking to get 6.2 via bittorrent (might be simpler
than FTP'ing ISOs) but URL on web pages seems permanently unavailable
(no browser likes it, bittorrent says check it with a browser, can ping
address but not port 8080)

Ummmmm?

As usual for the ignorant, any pointers gratefully accepted.

Not familiar with bittorrent, but ftp install is relatively easy
provided you can download and write three floppy disks and have
some IP connection to the Net.

Have you considered
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html
?

bob prohaska

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