From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 14 14:50:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA20191 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:50:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA20186 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:50:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA17783; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:50:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:50:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: ldillon@cu.net cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBsd tar'ed & gziped In-Reply-To: <35D352E2.ACBCC822@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Larry Dillon wrote: > Is it possible to get a tar'ed & gziped version of of FreeBSD? I looked > all through the FTP directories that the "How to obtain FreeBSD" link > pointed to, to no avail. (Even though I'm connecting through a dual > T-1,) it seems like a waste of bandwidth and time to download the whole > thing with mget or somesuch. > Do you want to download a 150MB tarball? The protocol overhaead with mget is trivial. That's also what CDROMs are for. :) > Please email replies to : ldillon@no_fine_Hormel_products.cu.net > remove ------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Please use a reply-to. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message