Russell wrote to Artem at 19:52 25 Apr:

 RT> Knowing these beforehand should make live a little easier when
 RT> doing the  install. :-)

In fact, Russell, installing FreeBSD v4.x requires the installer to know
none of those things.

(a) If installing from the Internet via FTP (Highly Recommended)... boot
from floppy disk, insert MFSROOT floppy when prompted, answer questions on
screen, take all defaults for first installation (unless you have a small
disk drive, then you may need to resize /usr to be larger).

Just installed v4.8 on two systems here and completed both servers in one
afternoon. Spent most of my time doing something else while the software
"installed".

Actual answers can be found in the BSD documentation which can either be
installed and read in HTML format from your local system (the installation
process will identify the location of this document), or you can read the
FreeBSD Handbook online at:

   http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html

Information about device nodes can be found at the same site in the document:

   ~/books/handbook/basics-devices.html



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