From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 15 23:49:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f63.law9.hotmail.com [64.4.9.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8119B37B491 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 23:49:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 23:49:18 -0800 Received: from 63.204.239.193 by lw9fd.law9.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 07:49:18 GMT X-Originating-IP: [63.204.239.193] From: "EVILEEN MASTERS" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: freeBSD ftp Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 07:49:18 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Feb 2001 07:49:18.0287 (UTC) FILETIME=[F743DDF0:01C097EC] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello,

for the past few days I have been downloading freeBSD from ftp. I have one question:

Are the empty files neccessary to download as part of the package?

For instance, src-cur.4700xEmpty.gz. This is an extremely large file of 80,056KB. I don't understand how a file that big can be "empty". There are several of these large empty files in the download area. I would like to know if they are necessary for running freeBSD. Because I would rather omit them if they are not needed too much. On my connection it would take about 8 hours to download the one mentioned above. I already downloaded one of these empty files, and it took 6 hours. This seems pretty long to me. As there are so many such files in the download area, it would just take too long to download them all.  Anyway, please help!

Thanks


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