Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 05:58:32 +0300 From: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@turkey.ispro.net.tr> To: malte.lance@gmx.net Cc: Pavel Burgr <BurgrP@kaucuk.cz>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, dg@root.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD Download Message-ID: <35C91BD8.4977B3F1@turkey.ispro.net.tr> References: <s5c712e9.000@kaucuk.cz> <13767.18239.244789.842080@neuron.webmore.de>
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hello, I have to download FreeBSD as compressed archive but it did not work... I am just able to download it as .tar archive is it normal? I thought I would be able to compress it too! here is what happened; ftp> ls 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for 'file list'. total 1477 drwxr-xr-x 19 2035 207 1024 Jun 10 13:00 2.2.6-RELEASE drwxr-xr-x 18 2035 207 1024 Jul 28 17:07 2.2.7-RELEASE drwxr-xr-x 17 2035 207 512 May 21 19:56 3.0-980520-SNAP drwxrwxr-x 4 2035 207 512 Jun 2 19:20 CERT drwxrwxr-x 9 603 207 512 Aug 5 09:39 CTM drwxrwxr-x 4 root 207 1024 Jul 7 02:27 CVSup drwxrwxr-x 6 2035 207 512 Apr 30 13:51 FreeBSD-CVS drwxrwxr-x 8 2035 207 512 Aug 5 23:37 FreeBSD-current drwxrwxr-x 5 2035 207 512 Jan 13 1998 FreeBSD-stable drwxrwxr-x 4 2035 207 512 Apr 8 1997 I18N -rw-rw-r-- 1 2035 207 5425 Apr 28 04:42 README drwxrwxr-x 4 1038 207 1024 Jul 17 16:20 cam drwxrwxr-x 5 2035 207 512 Mar 7 15:39 development drwxrwxr-x 60 569 207 79872 Aug 4 23:00 distfiles drwxrwxr-x 2 2035 207 512 May 19 17:51 docs drwxrwxrwx 7 801 207 27648 Aug 3 09:15 incoming -rw-rw-r-- 1 2035 207 10400 Jul 22 15:17 index.html -rw-rw-r-- 1 2035 207 1359612 Aug 5 13:18 ls-lR.gz drwxrwxr-x 4 2035 207 1024 Jun 17 1997 mailing-lists drwxrwxr-x 2 2035 207 512 May 23 20:12 newsletter lrwxrwxrwx 1 2035 207 16 Oct 29 1997 packages -> packages-current drwxr-xr-x 50 569 207 1024 May 21 22:44 packages-2.2.6 dr-xr-xr-x 52 569 207 1024 Jul 24 15:13 packages-2.2.7 lrwxrwxrwx 1 2035 207 16 Jun 12 1997 packages-3.0 -> packages-curren t lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 207 24 Dec 29 1997 packages-current -> FreeBSD-cur rent/packages lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 207 23 Dec 29 1997 packages-stable -> FreeBSD-stab le/packages lrwxrwxrwx 1 2035 207 13 Jun 11 1997 ports -> ports-current lrwxrwxrwx 1 2035 207 13 Jun 12 1997 ports-3.0 -> ports-current lrwxrwxrwx 1 2035 207 21 Jun 11 1997 ports-current -> FreeBSD-curren t/ports lrwxrwxrwx 1 569 207 20 Jan 13 1998 ports-stable -> FreeBSD-stable/ ports drwxrwxr-x 5 2035 207 1024 Jul 28 17:09 tools drwxr-xr-x 4 2035 207 512 Jun 10 13:12 updates 226 Transfer complete. ftp> cd /pub/FreeBSD 250 CWD command successful. ftp> get 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar.gz local: 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar.gz remote: 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar.gz 200 PORT command successful. 550 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar.gz: No such file OR directory. ftp> get 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar.gz local: 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar.gz remote: 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar.gz 200 PORT command successful. 550 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar.gz: No such file OR directory. ftp> get 2.2.7-RELEASE.tgz local: 2.2.7-RELEASE.tgz remote: 2.2.7-RELEASE.tgz 200 PORT command successful. 550 2.2.7-RELEASE.tgz: No such file OR directory. ftp> get 2.2.7-RELEASE.gz local: 2.2.7-RELEASE.gz remote: 2.2.7-RELEASE.gz 200 PORT command successful. 550 2.2.7-RELEASE.gz: No such file OR directory. ftp> get 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar local: 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar remote: 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for '2.2.7-RELEASE.tar'. Malte Lance wrote: > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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