From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 21 11:42:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA12025 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 11:42:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA11878 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 18:41:22 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA04110; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 11:34:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 11:34:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Winston Mattson cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: downloading via ftp server In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Winston Mattson wrote: > I would like to download all the free bsd files (rel 2.2.6 I think the > version is called) to a local server on my network and then install it > from their. Excellent idea. > Do you have the full release in one file or broken up into a couple so > that downloading is eayser? If you don't would you be able to put the > directory in to compressed zip files for example to make it easyer to > download? Say about 25+meg each?? Actually, it's broken up into 240KB chunks and several distributions (except X). You have to grab bin/ and will want to grab floppies/ and probably tools/, but the rest is optional. This list may help: FreeBSD File Requirements: REQUIRED: floppies/boot.flp (boot floppy image) tools/fdimage.exe (DOS bootfloppy image writer) bin/* RECOMMENDED: manpages/ compat*/ doc/ (at your discretion) src/ssys.* > If you do, what would the ftp server address and the directory location > be? ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.6-RELEASE/ Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message