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Date:      Mon, 16 Feb 1998 13:45:52 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Randy A. Katz" <randyk@ccsales.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Source for Installs
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980216134411.10768M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980215172551.033c3d00@ccsales.com>

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On Sun, 15 Feb 1998, Randy A. Katz wrote:

> I want to setup a FreeBSD 2.2.5 machine which I keep current to be the
> source for all new installs on my network and not pull through the
> Internet. How do I:
> 
> 1. Setup the machine so that I can install from it?

Easiest way is to create an FTP server and mirror the bits you want
under /pub/FreeBSD/2.2.5-RELEASE/.  make it look like the ftp server, but
you don't have to grab everything.

> 2. Keep it current/stable?

I just keep -RELEASEs around and pull -stable/current from
current.freebsd.org.  Or you can slog throuh `make release'.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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