From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 4 11:19:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA29532 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 11:19:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (cyclone.degnet.baynet.de [194.95.214.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA29509 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 11:19:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malte.lance@gmx.net) Received: from neuron.webmore.de (unverified [194.95.214.183]) by cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Tue, 04 Aug 1998 20:19:55 +0200 Received: (from malte.lance@gmx.net) by neuron.webmore.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA02618; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 20:13:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Malte Lance MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 20:13:27 +0200 (CEST) To: "Pavel Burgr" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Download In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <13767.18239.244789.842080@neuron.webmore.de> Reply-To: malte.lance@gmx.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Pavel Burgr writes: > Please, can I download FreeBSD instalation from your FTP server as single package (e.g. GZip)? Someone else asked the same question today. Here's the posting and the answer: From: David Greenman Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG To: malte.lance@gmx.net cc: esl , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Download Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 05:22:49 -0700 >esl writes: > > Is there a way to download all of > > ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.7-RELEASE in to a compressed tar archive > > without downloading each piece one-by-one? What is the best way to > > download the entire distribution? I know there are CD-ROMs but they > > seemed to be outdated. > >AFAIK ftp.freebsd.org is capable of on-the-fly-compression. >When in /pub/FreeBSD type one of the following commands: >get 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar.gz >get 2.2.7-RELEASE.tgz >get 2.2.7-RELEASE.gz >get 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar As with most files on wcarchive, the 2.2.7-RELEASE bits are already compressed. We don't support on-the-fly compression since it justs wastes CPU cycles when trying to compress the data twice. We do support on-the-fly tar, however, so "get 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar" does work. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Thanx PaulB. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message