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Date:      Mon, 29 Nov 2004 20:50:16 -0600
From:      Adam Fabian <afabian@austin.rr.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ftp login/password
Message-ID:  <20041130025016.GA63781@turingmachine.mentalsiege.net>
In-Reply-To: <20041130022752.20122.qmail@web41003.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20041130022752.20122.qmail@web41003.mail.yahoo.com>

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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)



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