1252995SdteskeYou can install from the following types of media: 2252995Sdteske 3252995Sdteske CDROM requires one of the following supported CDROM drives: 4252995Sdteske ATAPI - Any standard ATAPI CDROM drive hooked to 5252995Sdteske a supported controller (see Hardware Guide). 6252995Sdteske SCSI - Any standard SCSI CDROM drive hooked to 7252995Sdteske a supported controller (see Hardware Guide). 8252995Sdteske 9252995Sdteske 10252995Sdteske DOS A DOS primary partition with the required FreeBSD 11252995Sdteske distribution files copied onto it (e.g. C:\FREEBSD\) 12252995Sdteske 13252995Sdteske 14252995Sdteske UFS Assuming a disk or partition with an existing 15252995Sdteske FreeBSD file system and distribution set on it, 16252995Sdteske get the distribution files from there. 17252995Sdteske 18252995Sdteske 19252995Sdteske Floppy Get distribution files from one or more DOS or UFS 20252995Sdteske formatted floppies. Such floppies are assumed to 21252995Sdteske contain the appropriate distribution pieces - see 22252995Sdteske ABOUT.TXT for more information about making floppy 23252995Sdteske distribution media. 24252995Sdteske 25252995Sdteske 26252995Sdteske FTP Get the distribution files from an anonymous ftp server 27252995Sdteske (you will be presented with a list). Please note that 28252995Sdteske you may invoke FTP in "Active"/"Passive" auto-mode, or 29252995Sdteske via an HTTP proxy. 30252995Sdteske 31252995Sdteske By default, ftp(1) will automatically use the best mode 32252995Sdteske for the server. Using an HTTP proxy is sometimes necessary 33252995Sdteske for firewalls which block all FTP connections. 34252995Sdteske 35252995Sdteske If you chose to enter your own URL in the FTP menu, please 36252995Sdteske note that all paths are *relative* to the home directory 37252995Sdteske of the user being logged in as. By default, this is the 38252995Sdteske user "ftp" (anonymous ftp) but you may change this in the 39252995Sdteske Options screen. 40252995Sdteske 41252995Sdteske 42252995Sdteske HTTP Direct 43252995Sdteske Get the distribution files directly from an HTTP server. 44252995Sdteske 45252995Sdteske If you chose to enter your own URL in the HTTP Direct menu, 46252995Sdteske please note that all paths are *relative* to the root 47252995Sdteske directory of the web server. 48252995Sdteske 49252995Sdteske 50252995Sdteske NFS Get the distribution files from an NFS server somewhere 51252995Sdteske (make sure that permissions on the server allow this!). 52252995Sdteske If this install method hangs on you or refuses to work 53252995Sdteske properly, you may need to set some special options for 54252995Sdteske your NFS server. See the Options screen for more details. 55