From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 27 15:37:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA06017 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:37:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA06005 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:37:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA13532; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:37:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:37:43 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Graham Jenkins cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD via Email In-Reply-To: <199710260307.OAA18377@kirk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 26 Oct 1997, Graham Jenkins wrote: > > RELEASE NOTES > > FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE > > -- > > If you do not have access to the Internet and electronic mail is your > > only recourse, then you may still fetch the files by sending mail to > > `ftpmail@ftpmail.vix.com' - putting the keyword "help" in your message > > to get more information on how to fetch files using this mechanism. > > If I did it this way, which files would I have to request - and from > where? I couldn't see any entire distribution file(s) - and I don't > fancy making individual requests for dozens (hundreds?) of files. You would be better served by buying the CDROM than using this method. The distribution files are split into 240k chunks and there are >50 of them for the bin distirbution alone. They can be fetched from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.5-RELEASE. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major