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Date:      Thu, 23 Sep 1999 09:31:58 -0500
From:      river <river@theriver.nu>
To:        'Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai' <asmodai@wxs.nl>, chris@tourneyland.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: How to set up an FTP Server for FreeBSD ftp installs (what to download?)
Message-ID:  <21DC5E98AE1FD311B1290020AFDB6C6E641A@cx288885-b.okcs1.ok.home.com>

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I think he is talking about having the source local
instead of installing over the internet ??



-----Original Message-----
From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai [mailto:asmodai@wxs.nl]
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 2:20 AM
To: chris@tourneyland.com
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: How to set up an FTP Server for FreeBSD ftp installs (what
to download?)


* chris@tourneyland.com (chris@tourneyland.com) [990922 21:52]:

>I have FreeBSD on one of my machines, and I thought it might be neat (and
>possibly a non-terrible idea) to download the FreeBSD distribution to it,
>and then install FreeBSD to my other machines via FTP. However, I'm not
>sure what to download. I naively tried to just copy the 3.3-RELEASE dir,
>only to wake up this morning to find out it was still working on the
>download (it was getting the Korean stuff) and was about to fill my 8 Gig
>drive.

Set up NAT and ftp install from the other box through your BSD box by
means of creating the bootdisks?

HTH,

-- 
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai                  asmodai(at)wxs.nl
The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
Network/Security Specialist        BSD: Technical excellence at its best
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