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From: Ray Cummins <rcummins@burlco.lib.nj.us>
To: Justin Thuet <taliesin@inconnect.com>
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Subject: Re: Why cant you do this???I
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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.