From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 1 20:24: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B222115D3E for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 20:24:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id XAA09034; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 23:22:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199904020422.XAA09034@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: freeBSD tar files? In-Reply-To: <37044220.F148BC1E@pa.dec.com> from "Edward K. Lee" at "Apr 1, 99 08:05:52 pm" To: eklee@pa.dec.com Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 23:22:42 -0500 (EST) Cc: grog@lemis.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Edward K. Lee wrote, > > Sure, > > I'd just like a convenient way to download the full distribution, whether it's > one big compressed tar file, or pieces of a tar file in one directory. That > way, I can put the distribution on a local server and quickly install FreeBSD on > all the PC's that I want off of that local server. Depending on the ftp daemon running on the particular site, you can grab them all on one tarfile. For example, % ftp -a ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/3.1-RELEASE/ Connected to wcarchive.cdrom.com. 220 wcarchive.cdrom.com FTP server (Version DG-3.1.27 Wed Dec 2 01:29:08 PST 1998) ready. 331 Guest login ok, send your email address as password. [cut logon spam] > cd .. > ls 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for 'file list'. total 3 drwxrwxr-x 17 2035 207 1024 Mar 10 08:32 2.2.8-RELEASE drwxr-xr-x 18 2035 207 1024 Mar 10 08:31 3.1-RELEASE drwxr-xr-x 5 2035 207 512 Mar 9 12:13 XFree86 226 Transfer complete. > get 3.1-RELEASE.tar local: 3.1-RELEASE.tar remote: 3.1-RELEASE.tar This addition of '.tar' on the end of the directory will pull down the whole directory tree above it as a tarfile. One thing to watch about this is that the tar will store symlinks as symlinks rather than follow them. You'll need to hop back up into the 3.1-RELEASE diretory, cd to the symlink dirs, cd .., then do the same 'get .tar.' Again, this is dependent on the frp daemon run at the particular site, but ftp.freebsd.org runs this way. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message