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Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 13:21:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@turkey.ispro.net.tr>
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Subject: Re: /pub/FreeBSD - MB?
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On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Evren Yurtesen wrote:

> how may I keep a local mirror of the most recent version?

Um, download it?  As long as you replicate the FTP site heirarchy (and it
doesn't have to be complete), the FTP install will find it fine.

> Doug White wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
> >
> > > hello
> > > how may I learn how many mbytes is
> > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD  with all its subdirectories?
> >
> > Really, really big.
> >
> > > and also how may I download the whole FreeBSD directory?
> > > what is the best way? well I am having trouble with links
> > > I am using wget, if someone knows a switch which I may use
> > > I would like to know it too : )
> >
> > See http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ and
> > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.7-RELEASE/INSTALL.TXT.  you want to
> > avoid fetching everything if you can since it's huge and you don't need
> > all of it.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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