Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 20:43:39 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@turkey.ispro.net.tr> Cc: malte.lance@gmx.net, Pavel Burgr <BurgrP@kaucuk.cz>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Download Message-ID: <199808060343.UAA22070@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Aug 1998 05:58:32 %2B0300." <35C91BD8.4977B3F1@turkey.ispro.net.tr>
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>hello, I have to download FreeBSD as compressed archive but it did not work... >I am just able to download it as .tar archive is it normal? I thought I would be >able to >compress it too! Is this unclear in some way, or did you just not read it?: >> As with most files on wcarchive, the 2.2.7-RELEASE bits are already >> compressed. We don't support on-the-fly compression since it justs wastes >> CPU cycles when trying to compress the data twice. We do support on-the-fly >> tar, however, so "get 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar" does work. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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