From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 1 20:57:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77DD814C37 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 20:57:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id AAA00891; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 00:06:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199903020506.AAA00891@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: question... In-Reply-To: <199903011820.KAA12739@table.jps.net> from "John W. Chang" at "Mar 1, 99 10:20:31 am" To: catcha@table.jps.net (John W. Chang) Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 00:06:13 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John W. Chang wrote, > > i'm a newbie and wasn't sure what CTM, CVSup, and AFS sites were for > in the "how to obtain FreeBSD" page. i'm only familiar to FTP sites. > if these are alternative ways to getting the software, what are the differences > and advantages?? I think they are all pretty well covered in the Handbook, http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.html Specificially, start at the first appendix, http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook339.html But to give you a basic answer, CTM and CVSup are both methods to download source code to maintain a source tree in sync with the most up-to-date versions. AFS is the Andrew File System, and if you don't know what it is, it probably can't help you. If you have access to the computers of a large institution (like a university) there is a chance they might be on it. If you just want to download a copy of FreeBSD for a 'fresh' install (i.e. you do not already have FreeBSD), ftp is the way to go. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message