From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 30 01:57:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA07137 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 May 1996 01:57:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from proxy.siemens.at (proxy.siemens.at [192.138.228.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA07090 for ; Thu, 30 May 1996 01:57:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sol1.gud.siemens.co.at (sol-f.gud.siemens-austria) by proxy.siemens.at with SMTP id AA17041 (5.67a/IDA-1.5 for ); Thu, 30 May 1996 10:56:46 +0200 Received: from ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at by sol1.gud.siemens.co.at with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #7 for ) id m0uP3X5-00020DC; Thu, 30 May 96 10:56 MET DST Received: by ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at (1.37.109.16/1.37) id AA111666241; Thu, 30 May 1996 10:50:41 +0200 From: "Hr.Ladavac" Message-Id: <199605300850.AA111666241@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> Subject: Re: Downloading FreeBSD To: jishsco2@rad.net.id Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 10:50:40 +0200 (MESZ) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <31AD2FD1.3310@rad.net.id> from "Lee han shang" at May 30, 96 12:19:13 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In his e-mail Lee han shang wrote: > Dear FreeBSD, > > I know this may sound really stupid, but I don't know how to go about > downloading the whole of your program. Do I go each directory and file, > one by one, or is there a compressed file(s) somewhere? Please advise me > on how to go about this. Well, you can get it piecemeal or gulp the whole thing. Please note that the ftp server at ftp.freebsd.org runs wu-ftpd which allows you to tell get foo.tar.gz, and you get the whole directory tree rooted at foo as a nice gzipped tar file. I would advise against getting the whole freebsd that way since you will violate export restrictions on cryptographic codes. Instead, go into the freebsd repository (2.1-RELEASE, whatever) and get it directory-by-directory, tar-gzipped. Please avoid the directory securedist; get it from internat.freebsd.org /Marino