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From: Ray Cummins <rcummins@burlco.lib.nj.us>
To: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
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Subject: Re: Why cant you do this???I
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On Mon, 23 Dec 1996, Paul T. Root wrote:

> > 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. 
> 
> It would also be huge. Probably 600 meg or more.
> 
> Why don't you install via ftp? What you need to download is the boot.flp
> image, create a boot disk and start the install.
> 
> Paul.
> 

Actually, it's around 63MB.  Doesn't include the 288MB of packages, 92MB
of XFree86, etc., on the CD.  If I had just one machine to install FreeBSD
on, I would certainly install via ftp to ftp.freebsd.org (or
ftp.cdrom.com, same thing).  Actually, if I wanted to wait a couple of
months to install, I would get the CD from Walnut Creek.  At any rate, it
is a joy to have the distribution locally for installs on multiple
machines.