Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:24:53 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: md6tommy@mdstud.chalmers.se (Tommy Hallgren) Subject: Re: CDROM image Message-ID: <19970917202453.BZ05191@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970917190459.6240A-100000@grosse.mdstud.chalmers.se>; from Tommy Hallgren on Sep 17, 1997 19:18:19 %2B0200 References: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970917190459.6240A-100000@grosse.mdstud.chalmers.se>
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As Tommy Hallgren wrote: > As others wrote to me saying that "make release" would be a substitue > isn't a serious answer. When I burned my FreeBSD2.2.1 CD I had to struggle > with very buggy and strange ftp programs in both Windows and MSDOS. I > wanted all of the distribution. But I couldn't get any of the clients > to handle symlinks they way I wanted, so I fetched the packages/All > directory. Not quite what I wanted. A friend brought his Windows95 > computer to my school so we still had long filenames. Why didn't you download it as a .tar file then? AFAIR, wcarchive supports downloading an entire hiearchy as a tar archive as well. Just specify a directory name, and append .tar. This will preserve symlinks. Keep the tar archive around until your FreeBSD is up, and you'll be able to use it... (or burn a CD out of it _with_ symlinks :). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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