From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jun 26 4:45:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.eskimo.com (mx1.eskimo.com [204.122.16.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6487F37B405 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 04:45:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eskimo.com (ripper@eskimo.com [204.122.16.13]) by mx1.eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA18825; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 04:45:07 -0700 Received: (from ripper@localhost) by eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id EAA27734; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 04:45:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 04:45:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200206261145.EAA27734@eskimo.com> From: Ross Lippert To: Lenderman22@aol.com Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <166.fb6f8d1.2a4aa1c0@aol.com> (Lenderman22@aol.com) Subject: Re: how do i... Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >How do I use ftp to ftp over the OS in the best and fastest way? I am not >that familiar with ftp and when I try it on a directory it runs thru each >file in the directory asking me to confirm. There must be a better way to do >this. ftp is your friend (esp the BSD one). ftp> prompt off ftp> mget * will get everything from a directory without querying your every time. Usually, though, when people talk about an ftp-install they mean that they have boot disks and they tell the installer that they booted from those disks that they want to do 'ftp' and let the installer do the ftp details. This makes me think you might have misunderstood something in such a way as to make things harder on yourself then they should be. If you'd like to correspond, off-list about your particular setup and so on feel free to write me. -r To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message