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From: Theodore Hope <freebsd@iguana.internexo.co.cr>
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Subject: Re: downloading entire CD image by ftp?
To: doranj@Colorado.EDU (Jonathon Doran)
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 10:39:34 -0600 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <199907021624.KAA10286@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> from "Jonathon Doran" at Jul 2, 99 10:24:13 am
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> > We plan to do an ftp installation of 3.2, but instead of doing it
> > to ftp.freebsd.org, we'd like to have previously downloaded the
> > entire contents to another local machine so that the installation 
> > will be faster.   
> 
> While there are ISO CD images available, this is *not* what you are asking
> for.

You're right, the CD images aren't what I want (unless I have a cd writer
and want to make the image myself, which I don't).


> I am not aware of any single file which contains all the distribution files,
> however its not too tough to replicate the 3.2-RELEASE directory on your
> local system.  At a minimum, just pull down the contents of "bin".  The
> distribution minus ports and packages contains 642 files, most of which
> are in a single level below the release (release/bin release/src etc).
> XFree86 has another level, and so is a little more work.  But not too bad.
> If you create the directories, a decent ftp client will recursively retrieve
> the files for you.

Thanks for the suggestion.  I'll start with that.

-Ted.


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