Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 20:13:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Malte Lance <malte.lance@gmx.net> To: "Pavel Burgr" <BurgrP@kaucuk.cz> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Download Message-ID: <13767.18239.244789.842080@neuron.webmore.de> In-Reply-To: <s5c712e9.000@kaucuk.cz> References: <s5c712e9.000@kaucuk.cz>
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Pavel Burgr writes: > Please, can I download FreeBSD instalation from your FTP server as single package (e.g. GZip)? Someone else asked the same question today. Here's the posting and the answer: From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG To: malte.lance@gmx.net cc: esl <esl@news1.cio.med.va.gov>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Download Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 05:22:49 -0700 >esl writes: > > Is there a way to download all of > > ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.7-RELEASE in to a compressed tar archive > > without downloading each piece one-by-one? What is the best way to > > download the entire distribution? I know there are CD-ROMs but they > > seemed to be outdated. > >AFAIK ftp.freebsd.org is capable of on-the-fly-compression. >When in /pub/FreeBSD type one of the following commands: >get 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar.gz >get 2.2.7-RELEASE.tgz >get 2.2.7-RELEASE.gz >get 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar As with most files on wcarchive, the 2.2.7-RELEASE bits are already compressed. We don't support on-the-fly compression since it justs wastes CPU cycles when trying to compress the data twice. We do support on-the-fly tar, however, so "get 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar" does work. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Thanx PaulB. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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