From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 29 16:36:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maximian.blizzardgames.com (unknown [216.13.117.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A0281503A for ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 16:36:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lane@rettig.com) Received: (qmail 13546 invoked by uid 0); 29 Jun 1999 23:36:14 -0000 Received: from rettig.com (psych34.hunter.cuny.edu [146.95.17.34]) by mb3.mailbank.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA04383 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 16:34:23 -0700 Message-ID: <377957FD.506DE60B@rettig.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 19:34:21 -0400 From: Lane Rettig Organization: Blizzard Nation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,en-US,en-GB,fr,fr-FR,fr-CA,zh,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: FreeBSD FTP Download Question Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 "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