From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 19 12:55:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA03789 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 12:55:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (dkelly@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA03784 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 12:55:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) id OAA10171; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 14:55:35 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 14:55:35 -0500 (CDT) From: David Kelly Message-Id: <199709191955.OAA10171@fly.HiWAAY.net> To: bkyle@sfu.ca, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD .ZIP or something Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk bkyle@sfu.ca writes: > Hi. > > I want to install Free BSD. At school, I have a high-speed internet > connection, and I want to download the latest stable version, copy it onto > floppies and take it home to install. > > I can't seem to find any kind of 'one file' .ZIP archive or something. > Looking on your www.freebsd.org, I found the various release directories > containing all the files as they appear on the CD-Roms, but is there a > single .ZIP file I could download to get it all at once? I don't want to > have to FTP each file seperately, and make my own directory structure to > put them in. This is probably what you want to do: ftp ftp.cdrom.com cd /pub/FreeBSD binary get 2.2.2-RELEASE.tar No, there isn't a 2.2.2-RELEASE.tar but wcarchive will make one for you on the fly. Might also have to do the same for XF8633 and one or two other things as they are symlinks and you will only get the link in your tar file. Once you get that monster on a local filesystem its up to you to figure out how to put the right parts on floppy for a floppy inst. Think the instructions are in the handbook or in a README or similar. Personally, I either copy to tape, or a 386sx16 4.5MB luggable not-really-small-enough-to-be-a-laptop. Its not battery powered but has an ISA slot with an 8-bit 3Com card and 850MB IDE HD. So I install via NFS on friend's machines with that monster. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net (hm) ====================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.