From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 1 16:33:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA27870 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 16:33:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ogandalf.rutgers.edu (ogandalf.rutgers.edu [128.6.7.26]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA27860 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 16:33:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from communications.rutgers.edu (communications.rutgers.edu [128.6.209.2]) by ogandalf.rutgers.edu (8.6.12+bestmx+oldruq+newsunq+grosshack/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA13436 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 19:33:27 -0400 Received: from COMMUNICATIONS/MAILQUEUE by communications.rutgers.edu (Mercury 1.13); Sun, 1 Sep 96 19:32:39 EST Received: from MAILQUEUE by COMMUNICATIONS (Mercury 1.13); Sun, 1 Sep 96 19:32:16 EST From: "Daren Jacobs" Organization: University Communications To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 19:32:11 EST MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: ftp download for installation X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Daren Jacobs" X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Message-ID: <2CCBEA3337@communications.rutgers.edu> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I have a t1 link to the internet at work and I would like to download freebsd via ftp so that I can install it on my computer at home. I would like to get all of release 2.1.5. How can I ftp the entire release under Windows95. I attempted to ftp the entire /pub/FreeBSD/2.1.5-Release directory and subdirectories from ftp.cslab.vt.edu but it fails due to symbolic links to the 2.1.0 release. Again my question is What do I need to download to have the entire 2.1.5 release of freebsd so that I can install it on my home computer? Another problem that I am having is that I am ftping the release with a windows95 ftp client and althought I can get files and directories that have more than 8 characters when I look at the directories in dos there is a ~ to compensate for the larger directories. Is there a workaround to this. Thank you. Daren Jacobs. ----------------------------------- Daren Jacobs Telecommunications manager Rutgers the State University of NJ, Communications Department djacobs@communications.rutgers.edu phone: 908 932 7084 ext 620 fax: 908 932 8412 I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers. ------------------------------------