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From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
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Subject: Re: Why cant you do this???I
To: rcummins@burlco.lib.nj.us (Ray Cummins)
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 07:50:56 -0600 (CST)
Cc: taliesin@inconnect.com, questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.961221140000.14152A-100000@burlco-00.burlco.lib.nj.us> from Ray Cummins at "Dec 21, 96 02:03:03 pm"
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In a previous message, Ray Cummins said:
> On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, Justin Thuet wrote:
> 
> > I want to move to freebsd for my Pc, however I cant find one tar file
> > with 
> > all the install files in it. Why cant you do that, then download one file
> > untar it then install, it would be the coolest thing since sliced bread!
> > theres no way that I want to download 300 seperate files! it take all
> > night... 
> > 
> > 					Justin
> 
> FTP to ftp.cdrom.com, cd to /pub/FreeBSD, then 
> 
> get 2.1.6-RELEASE.tar.gz
> 
> or whatever you want.  Their server automatically tars all files and gzips
> the result. 

It would also be huge. Probably 600 meg or more.

Why don't you install via ftp? What you need to download is the boot.flp
image, create a boot disk and start the install.

Paul.

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