From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 27 03:36:37 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id DAA11969 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 03:36:37 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA11963 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 03:36:35 -0700 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id DAA01575; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 03:36:15 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199510271036.DAA01575@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: Unix tar/gz version of source? To: ryan@genius.tisl.soft.net Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 03:36:15 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "ryan@genius.tisl.soft.net" at Oct 27, 95 01:31:29 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 812 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Where can I get the source of FreeBSD in tar(or tar.gz) format? > It woul be easy for me to download one file. > > Thanks in advance, > Ryan > (ryan@genius.tisl.soft.net) > > ftp ftp.freebsd.org cd pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current bin get src.tar Now I know there is no src.tar there.. but the server will tar up the src directory for you and send it.. (smart server eh?) of course this is a LOT of sources.. (100s of MB) you might want to be more slective by cd'ing further into the tree. also consider: 1/ buy the cdrom.. for 30 dollars it's a good buy 2/ get a pc, get the boot floppy, install it the install process will ftp over the sources as part of the install 3/ get and compile SUP on whatever unix box you have and SUP the sources.. (see the www pages at www.freebsd.org for more options)