Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 08:35:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Malte Lance <malte.lance@gmx.net> To: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@turkey.ispro.net.tr> Cc: Pavel Burgr <BurgrP@kaucuk.cz>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, dg@root.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD Download Message-ID: <13769.19604.841889.734465@neuron.webmore.de> In-Reply-To: <35C91BD8.4977B3F1@turkey.ispro.net.tr> References: <s5c712e9.000@kaucuk.cz> <13767.18239.244789.842080@neuron.webmore.de> <35C91BD8.4977B3F1@turkey.ispro.net.tr>
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Evren Yurtesen writes: > 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! In the quoted part of this message (i've quoted it) at the end YOU quoted some mail-communication where I was quoting a message of David Greenman, where HE quoted ME, correcting my answer that was quoting a question of "esl <esl@news1.cio.med.va.gov>" to questions, asking nearly the same as you are asking now. Now you do not know what i was talking about, but you definately know where to look for the answer ;) Malte. > here is what happened; > > ftp> ls > 200 PORT command successful. > 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for 'file list'. > total 1477 > drwxr-xr-x 19 2035 207 1024 Jun 10 13:00 2.2.6-RELEASE > drwxr-xr-x 18 2035 207 1024 Jul 28 17:07 2.2.7-RELEASE > drwxr-xr-x 17 2035 207 512 May 21 19:56 3.0-980520-SNAP > drwxrwxr-x 4 2035 207 512 Jun 2 19:20 CERT > drwxrwxr-x 9 603 207 512 Aug 5 09:39 CTM > drwxrwxr-x 4 root 207 1024 Jul 7 02:27 CVSup > drwxrwxr-x 6 2035 207 512 Apr 30 13:51 FreeBSD-CVS > drwxrwxr-x 8 2035 207 512 Aug 5 23:37 FreeBSD-current > drwxrwxr-x 5 2035 207 512 Jan 13 1998 FreeBSD-stable > drwxrwxr-x 4 2035 207 512 Apr 8 1997 I18N > -rw-rw-r-- 1 2035 207 5425 Apr 28 04:42 README > drwxrwxr-x 4 1038 207 1024 Jul 17 16:20 cam > drwxrwxr-x 5 2035 207 512 Mar 7 15:39 development > drwxrwxr-x 60 569 207 79872 Aug 4 23:00 distfiles > drwxrwxr-x 2 2035 207 512 May 19 17:51 docs > drwxrwxrwx 7 801 207 27648 Aug 3 09:15 incoming > -rw-rw-r-- 1 2035 207 10400 Jul 22 15:17 index.html > -rw-rw-r-- 1 2035 207 1359612 Aug 5 13:18 ls-lR.gz > drwxrwxr-x 4 2035 207 1024 Jun 17 1997 mailing-lists > drwxrwxr-x 2 2035 207 512 May 23 20:12 newsletter > lrwxrwxrwx 1 2035 207 16 Oct 29 1997 packages -> packages-current > drwxr-xr-x 50 569 207 1024 May 21 22:44 packages-2.2.6 > dr-xr-xr-x 52 569 207 1024 Jul 24 15:13 packages-2.2.7 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 2035 207 16 Jun 12 1997 packages-3.0 -> packages-curren > > t > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 207 24 Dec 29 1997 packages-current -> FreeBSD-cur > > rent/packages > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 207 23 Dec 29 1997 packages-stable -> FreeBSD-stab > > le/packages > lrwxrwxrwx 1 2035 207 13 Jun 11 1997 ports -> ports-current > lrwxrwxrwx 1 2035 207 13 Jun 12 1997 ports-3.0 -> ports-current > lrwxrwxrwx 1 2035 207 21 Jun 11 1997 ports-current -> FreeBSD-curren > > t/ports > lrwxrwxrwx 1 569 207 20 Jan 13 1998 ports-stable -> FreeBSD-stable/ > > ports > drwxrwxr-x 5 2035 207 1024 Jul 28 17:09 tools > drwxr-xr-x 4 2035 207 512 Jun 10 13:12 updates > 226 Transfer complete. > ftp> cd /pub/FreeBSD > 250 CWD command successful. > ftp> get 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar.gz > local: 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar.gz remote: 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar.gz > 200 PORT command successful. > 550 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar.gz: No such file OR directory. > ftp> get 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar.gz > local: 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar.gz remote: 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar.gz > 200 PORT command successful. > 550 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar.gz: No such file OR directory. > ftp> get 2.2.7-RELEASE.tgz > local: 2.2.7-RELEASE.tgz remote: 2.2.7-RELEASE.tgz > 200 PORT command successful. > 550 2.2.7-RELEASE.tgz: No such file OR directory. > ftp> get 2.2.7-RELEASE.gz > local: 2.2.7-RELEASE.gz remote: 2.2.7-RELEASE.gz > 200 PORT command successful. > 550 2.2.7-RELEASE.gz: No such file OR directory. > ftp> get 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar > local: 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar remote: 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar > 200 PORT command successful. > 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for '2.2.7-RELEASE.tar'. > > > > Malte Lance wrote: > > > Pavel Burgr writes: > > > Please, can I download FreeBSD instalation from your FTP server as > > single package (e.g. GZip)? > > > > Someone else asked the same question today. Here's the posting and > > the answer: > > > > From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> > > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > To: malte.lance@gmx.net > > cc: esl <esl@news1.cio.med.va.gov>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Re: FreeBSD Download > > Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 05:22:49 -0700 > > > > >esl writes: > > > > Is there a way to download all of > > > > ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.7-RELEASE in to a compressed tar archive > > > > without downloading each piece one-by-one? What is the best way to > > > > download the entire distribution? I know there are CD-ROMs but they > > > > seemed to be outdated. > > > > > >AFAIK ftp.freebsd.org is capable of on-the-fly-compression. > > >When in /pub/FreeBSD type one of the following commands: > > >get 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar.gz > > >get 2.2.7-RELEASE.tgz > > >get 2.2.7-RELEASE.gz > > >get 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar > > > > 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 > > > > > Thanx PaulB. > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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