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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 09:27:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: arthur doyle <baker21b@hotmail.com>
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On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, arthur doyle wrote:

> I am trying to download the a typical FreedBSD distribution from 
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.2-RELEASE/  onto my office 
> harddrive as I want to back this all up onto zip drive and bring it home 
> to load on my personal machine. However, if I use Netscape to download 
> the files, I have to do them individually, which will take well... 
> forever. 
> 
> Therefore, I would like to use my FTP program which allows me to select 
> multiple files and download these with one go. Could you please tell me 
> what the FTP address of this site is and if it's an anonymous FTP site. 
> Thanks.

Take a look at the URL you just typed:

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.2-RELEASE/

Hm, what does this mean?  :-)

ftp:// -- method, in this case FTP
ftp.freebsd.org -- site to pull from
/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.2-RELEASE -- path to view

BTW 2.2.5 should be out by now and I suggest installing that instead.
2.2.2 had some major bugs in the installer.

Hope this helps!

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major