Subject: Re: Greeting and question
To: None <posaydal@ppp.bekoame.or.jp>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
List: m68k
Date: 02/28/1996 09:59:30
> And I have a question.  The question is that how can I get NetBSD
> from?  Can I get it from CD-ROM and so on or internet?

Yes.

It is available on CD-ROM; various posts (generally on current-users)
have talked about where.  I didn't save them because I have no need for
a CD-ROM version, but I'm sure they're in the mailing list archives.

You can also get it by anonymous ftp.

> Because I looked the ftp archives, there are so many bytes of binary
> data.

I'm not sure what the problem is.  If you're trying to get a binary
distribution, suitable for a first installation, this is hardly
surprising.  If you want a source distribution, I believe there is an
unpacked source tree, which is no more "binary" than any source files,
and also .tar (or .tar.gz, I forget) files with large pieces of the
source in them, which like any other .tar or .tar.gz files are of
course binary files.

					der Mouse

			    mouse@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu