From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 16 8:19:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2E2037BF8A for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 08:19:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA62904; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:19:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:19:24 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q: Keeping ftp install files on 4.0??? Message-ID: <20000316111924.C62772@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <002568A4.0055780D.00@rslhub.raytheon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <002568A4.0055780D.00@rslhub.raytheon.co.uk>; from Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk on Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 03:34:54PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 03:34:54PM +0000, Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk wrote: > > Hi, > > If I was to install FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE by ftp, would it be > possible to keep the downloaded distribution sets for > later use (i.e. on another system)? > > I'm stuck at the end of a 56k and I dont want to go through > the trauma of doing two sets down a 56k :-) I also want to > avoid keeping partitions of files everywhere 'for later > use'. Grab the works and burn it to a CD. % ftp ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.0-RELEASE.tar Untar the dist, build the ISO9660 filesystem, and write the CD. Now you have FreeBSD 4.0R forever. Note that this will _not_ grab X or packages. You need to add some extra steps for that, but it can be done. (I'm assuming the ftp site you choose has a server that lets you tar-down a whole directory tree.) -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message