From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 28 11:55: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B561937B422 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:55:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA08105; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:55:00 -0700 Message-ID: <39AAB584.1C5A78BC@urx.com> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:55:00 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: harlequ@yahoo.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Downloading FreeBSD 4.x References: <20000828173919.12975.qmail@web206.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG bentley rhodes wrote: > > win98se user would like to download the entire FreeBSD > 4.x files, however > when trying to do this I notice that the soft links > end up copying all the > files in the ALL directory again, doubling the amount > of space needed. Also > , I can't use it from the FreeBSD setup arena > (configuration) after having > copied it like that. What are you trying to download? If you want to do a simple install look at the /bin directory. I have downloaded the iso from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/. This is a 650MB file. I have Adaptec's EZ-CD Creator and used it to burn an image on to CD-R material, which created a 4.1-release CDROM. It depends on how much bandwidth you have. I downloaded 4.0-Release on a 56kb modem and it required 40 hours. There was a lot of congestion when I tried the same thing for 4.1 via my DSL and the download required 5 hours. > > So question is am I able to copy those soft links in a > way that I will be > able to maintain it as it is on the server? I don't think there is anything comparable on Win 9x at the directory level. You are seeing directories soft linked to other HD's. Kent > > Bentley3@mediaone.net > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! > http://mail.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message