From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 3 17: 6:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tharmas.rintrah.org (dhcp065-031-016-002.insight.rr.com [65.31.16.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5501A37B400 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 17:06:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 24473 invoked by uid 1000); 4 Feb 2002 01:09:53 -0000 Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 20:09:53 -0500 From: devin-freebsdquestions@rintrah.org To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing from local network FTP server Message-ID: <20020203200952.A24428@tharmas.rintrah.org> Mail-Followup-To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1012777172.247.5.camel@dhcp-251.meshek.eh> <94584.1012778121@monkeys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <94584.1012778121@monkeys.com>; from rfg@monkeys.com on Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 03:15:21PM -0800 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 On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 03:15:21PM -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > 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? > Try 'wget' in ports. 'wget -m' should do it for you. --devin -- Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message