Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 19:34:21 -0400 From: Lane Rettig <lane@rettig.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: FreeBSD FTP Download Question Message-ID: <377957FD.506DE60B@rettig.com>
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I'm in the process of downloading FreeBSD via FTP so that I can place it on a CD-ROM and install it on my system. I originally thought that this would be as simple as downloading the /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/3.2-RELEASE/ directory, recursively, from one of the many mirrors. I've downloaded the whole tree, excluding the packages/ directory. I thought the whole current FreeBSD release would fit on a single CD-ROM. But I see over 2 gigs of files in the packages/ directory. For a standard FreeBSD 3.2 installation (to be burned onto a CD-ROM), which files should I download? Must the packages/ files be downloaded and burned onto additional CD-ROMs, or are they optional? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time! -- Lane "Sandman" Rettig <lane@rettig.com> "To punish me for my contempt for authority, Fate made me an authority myself." - Albert Einstein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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