From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 1 19: 5:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE6071529B for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 19:05:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: from bb-b1-11a (ppp82.pm3-0.pdx.dsinw.com [207.149.41.82]) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA14262; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 19:03:04 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 18:59:58 -0800 () From: Rick Hamell To: "Edward K. Lee" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freeBSD tar files? In-Reply-To: <370431D4.25B344F5@pa.dec.com> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: hamellr@dsinw.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > This may be a silly question, but why are there no tar files for the FreeBSD > distributions? Are we really supposed to ftp each individual file/directory? Nope, yer supposed to download the two installation floppy immages, make the disks, boot off them, follow the instructions, and let it download the files itself. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message