From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 5 20:47:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA19095 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 20:47:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA19090 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 20:47:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA22070; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 20:43:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199808060343.UAA22070@implode.root.com> To: Evren Yurtesen cc: malte.lance@gmx.net, Pavel Burgr , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Download In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 06 Aug 1998 05:58:32 +0300." <35C91BD8.4977B3F1@turkey.ispro.net.tr> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 20:43:39 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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