From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 3 15:15:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from segfault.monkeys.com (246.dsl6660157.rstatic.surewest.net [66.60.157.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43CE437B417 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 15:15:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from monkeys.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by segfault.monkeys.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4B4A660C; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 15:15:21 -0800 (PST) To: Gilad Rom Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Installing from local network FTP server In-reply-to: Your message of 03 Feb 2002 22:59:22 +0000. <1012777172.247.5.camel@dhcp-251.meshek.eh> Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 15:15:21 -0800 Message-ID: <94584.1012778121@monkeys.com> From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <1012777172.247.5.camel@dhcp-251.meshek.eh>, you wrote: >All you have to do is download the entire >'/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.5-RELEASE' directory from your favorite >FreeBSD FTP Mirror, and put it under (example, replace with anything >appropriate) /usr/local/FreeBSD. OK, call me ignorant, but I just _do not_ know how to do the equivalent of an `rcp -r' (recursive remote copy) that gets all of the files, all of the directories, and all of the sub-sub-sub-directories, starting from a given point on some remote FTP server. (Soory if this is a dumb question. I don't actually use FTP all that much.) Can you tell me how to do that (recursive get) using FTP? Will the FTP `mget' command do it for me? Also, remember that I'm trying to conserve bandwidth... of which I have relatively little. Is the stuff in the FTP directory that you just mentioned already compressed, or not? If not, there where can I FTP a compressed version of this same stuff? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message