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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Stargate wrote:

> I'm planning to download FreeBSD 2.2.2 using a recursive ftp software. 
> Does anyone know diskspace needed to store the whole 
> ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.2-RELEASE directory tree?

>600MB since that includes the packages tree.  If you omit packages/,
xperimnt/, commerce/ and proflibs/ then you save yourself several hundred
megs.  Otherwise it takes up somewhere in the 100-200MB range. 

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