Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 23:22:42 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: eklee@pa.dec.com Cc: grog@lemis.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freeBSD tar files? Message-ID: <199904020422.XAA09034@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <37044220.F148BC1E@pa.dec.com> from "Edward K. Lee" at "Apr 1, 99 08:05:52 pm"
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Edward K. Lee wrote, > > Sure, > > I'd just like a convenient way to download the full distribution, whether it's > one big compressed tar file, or pieces of a tar file in one directory. That > way, I can put the distribution on a local server and quickly install FreeBSD on > all the PC's that I want off of that local server. Depending on the ftp daemon running on the particular site, you can grab them all on one tarfile. For example, % ftp -a ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/3.1-RELEASE/ Connected to wcarchive.cdrom.com. 220 wcarchive.cdrom.com FTP server (Version DG-3.1.27 Wed Dec 2 01:29:08 PST 1998) ready. 331 Guest login ok, send your email address as password. [cut logon spam] > cd .. > ls 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for 'file list'. total 3 drwxrwxr-x 17 2035 207 1024 Mar 10 08:32 2.2.8-RELEASE drwxr-xr-x 18 2035 207 1024 Mar 10 08:31 3.1-RELEASE drwxr-xr-x 5 2035 207 512 Mar 9 12:13 XFree86 226 Transfer complete. > get 3.1-RELEASE.tar local: 3.1-RELEASE.tar remote: 3.1-RELEASE.tar This addition of '.tar' on the end of the directory will pull down the whole directory tree above it as a tarfile. One thing to watch about this is that the tar will store symlinks as symlinks rather than follow them. You'll need to hop back up into the 3.1-RELEASE diretory, cd to the symlink dirs, cd .., then do the same 'get <dirname>.tar.' Again, this is dependent on the frp daemon run at the particular site, but ftp.freebsd.org runs this way. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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