Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 13:21:18 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Rick Hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com>, "Edward K. Lee" <eklee@pa.dec.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freeBSD tar files? Message-ID: <19990402132118.U413@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.3.95.990401185906.-3974941B-100000@bb-b1-11a>; from Rick Hamell on Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 06:59:58PM -0800 References: <370431D4.25B344F5@pa.dec.com> <Pine.WNT.3.95.990401185906.-3974941B-100000@bb-b1-11a>
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On Thursday, 1 April 1999 at 18:59:58 -0800, Rick Hamell wrote: > >> 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. This is a fancy way of doing it, but it's often frustrating. Firewalls and things severely complicate matters. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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