From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 30 02:51:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 969EF16A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 02:51:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ms-smtp-02-eri0.texas.rr.com (ms-smtp-02.texas.rr.com [24.93.47.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE75543D64 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 02:51:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from afabian@austin.rr.com) Received: from turingmachine.mentalsiege.net (cs70112247-52.austin.rr.com [70.112.247.52])iAU2pB8H016360 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 20:51:11 -0600 (CST) Received: from turingmachine.mentalsiege.net (turingmachine.mentalsiege.net [127.0.0.1])iAU2oZhn063878 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 20:50:48 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from afabian@turingmachine.mentalsiege.net) Received: (from afabian@localhost)iAU2oZPf063869 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 20:50:35 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from afabian) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 20:50:16 -0600 From: Adam Fabian To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20041130025016.GA63781@turingmachine.mentalsiege.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20041130022752.20122.qmail@web41003.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041130022752.20122.qmail@web41003.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Subject: Re: ftp login/password X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 02:51:15 -0000 On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 06:27:52PM -0800, j p wrote: > i'm trying to download freebsd via ftp. what is the login and > password. how do i copy the files FreeBSD is available via anonymous FTP. That means that you use the login "anonymous" and your email address as a password. There's a list of FTP mirrors at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html You copy the files via whatever method your FTP client supports. Typically, a modern web-browser can handle an ftp:// URI and you can drag-and-drop the files. But you didn't even mention what platform you're using. Incidentally, there's a lot of stuff on the FTP site, and you're not going to know what to download without consulting further resources. The FreeBSD handbook is a good place to dive in. -- Adam Fabian (afabian@austin.rr.com)