Yep. That's it If you don't have the game already we even have another installer to take care of that too But installing it from CD will save you a hell of a long wait. Especially if you copy the mve cutscenes (Check CD 2 and 3) into your Freespace2 folder once you've finished installing the game.
ummmm....
I'll fix that.
The Open Installer actually will download retail as well (in order to check it against your pre-existing files - that's what the "getting next entry" message is), unless you follow these instructions. These instructions will save you a lot of bandwidth:
1. Install FreeSpace 2 from your disks, if you haven't already. Install it to C:\Games\FreeSpace2.
2. Now, put disk 2 of FreeSpace 2 back into your CD drive.
3. Copy all the files with the extension of ".MVE" from the disk to the folder C:\Games\FreeSpace2\data\movies\ (create this folder if it doesn't exist)
4. Do the same thing for disk 3.
5. Use
this patch to patch your game to 1.2.
6. Put
this file in C:\Games\FreeSpace2\Installer\ (create this folder if it doesn't exist)
7. Download
this file, and unzip the contents to C:\Games\FreeSpace2\
8. Run FreeSpaceOpenInstaller.exe. Give it C:\Games\FreeSpace2, then select "All Features" and "Let me choose."
This is really just a temporary fix until I can get the files hosted unzipped. (Once || If) that happens, the pre-installed files check will be much faster.
EDIT: Speed of the Installer will also increase upon introduction of compressed vps (not as much to download).