Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 11:57:08 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: jamtat@citycom.com Cc: marko@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: download sizes Message-ID: <39A81304.D1C9BB61@urx.com> References: <260800239.37581@134.48.35.169>
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jamtat@citycom.com wrote: > > Thanks for the feedback. There must be something wrong with my > nose. I searched again, using the ftp links you suggested, but > still could find nothing in the way of a statement of the size > of the download of, say, the 4.1 release. The only way I've seen > so far that would get me the size parameters I want would be > to open each dir, right click (in IE 5) on each file, select > properties, then look at the file size. I'd have to write each > one down, and then add them all up. Perhaps there's a simpler > way? Any further tips? Just a ballpark figure would suffice: > I'm not looking for anything terribly precise. You were supposed to end up at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.1-RELEASE/bin/. Where you would find a series of files called bin.aa to bin.fb and a few more. The tail end of a ls and a dir of fa (next to last because fb can be smaller) shows bin.fa bin.fb bin.inf install.sh bin.mtree CHECKSUM.MD5 226 Transfer complete. ftp: 1102 bytes received in 0.06Seconds 18.37Kbytes/sec. ftp> dir bin.fa 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for 'file list'. -rw-r--r-- 1 2035 207 240640 Jul 27 05:14 bin.fa 226 Transfer complete. ftp: 53 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 53000.00Kbytes/sec. I loaded the cdrom on my W2K Server and did a properties of \bin. It listed the size of the directory as "30.9 MB (32,498,396 bytes)". You could have calculated it in the following way. The last file is bin.fb. The letter "f" is the 6th and "b" is the 2nd. That means you have (6-1)*26+2=132 files. Each bin file is 240640 bytes. The estimated total size would then be 132*240,640 = 31764480 = ~30.3 MB. There are a few more files in the /bin directory and bin.fb is about half the size of the rest. That is probably close enough. Kent > > Thanks, James > > --- Original Message --- > Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> Wrote on > Sat, 26 Aug 2000 15:39:43 +0100 > ------------------ > On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 09:12:37AM -0500, James an Tatiana Miller > wrote: > > I can't seem to find anywhere on your site the download sizes > for > > files used in installing FreeBSD. Where should I be looking > for this > > info? > > > > Start at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ and follow your nose. > > Assuming that you want the latest RELEASE (for i386) then > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.1-RELEASE/ > > Is the top level. The entire contents of the bin sub-dir is required > for a minimum install. > > HTH > > > James > > -- > 4.4 - The number of the Beastie > ________________________________________________________________ > 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org > 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark > mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com > > ----- > Sent using MailStart.com ( http://MailStart.Com/welcome.html ) > The FREE way to access your mailbox via any web browser, anywhere! > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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