From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 24 07:32:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA15776 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 07:32:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ady.warpnet.ro (ady.warpnet.ro [193.230.201.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA15683 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 07:32:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ady@warpnet.ro) Received: from localhost (ady@localhost) by ady.warpnet.ro (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA25229; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 17:30:51 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ady@warpnet.ro) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 17:30:51 +0300 (EEST) From: Adrian Penisoara To: Carroll Kong cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD CD In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980724080141.0086e500@eden-backend.rutgers.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Carroll Kong wrote: > > I could try ftp.cdrom.com instead, since they most likely support it... > Is there anyway through ftp for me to download these symlinks? (the actual > symlink, not the dest of the symlink) And on top of that... the packages Did you try wget (ports/net/wget) ? I use 'wget -m URL' here and it works with symlinks (it will make the symlinks but won't retrieve the linked file unless you will request it). > of 2.2.7 is ... well huge. How do I go about spanning these two discs? Do > i just cut anough cd with the proper dir structure of the freebsd CD but > only with the remaining packages? Thanks a lot guys! > > -Carroll Kong Just my $0.02 Ady (@freebsd.ady.ro) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message