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Date:      Fri, 24 Jul 1998 17:30:51 +0300 (EEST)
From:      Adrian Penisoara <ady@warpnet.ro>
To:        Carroll Kong <damascus@eden.rutgers.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD CD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980724172714.25037B-100000@ady.warpnet.ro>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980724080141.0086e500@eden-backend.rutgers.edu>

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Hi,

On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Carroll Kong wrote:

> 
> I could try ftp.cdrom.com instead, since they most likely support it... 
> Is there anyway through ftp for me to download these symlinks?  (the actual
> symlink, not the dest of the symlink)  And on top of that... the packages

 Did you try wget (ports/net/wget) ? I use 'wget -m URL' here and it works
with symlinks (it will make the symlinks but won't retrieve the linked
file unless you will request it).

> of 2.2.7 is ... well huge.  How do I go about spanning these two discs?  Do
> i just cut anough cd with the proper dir structure of the freebsd CD but
> only with the remaining packages?  Thanks a lot guys!
> 
> -Carroll Kong

 Just my $0.02
 Ady (@freebsd.ady.ro)


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