From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 21 6:33:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B82D37B698 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 06:33:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from mark8 (hutch-178.hutchtel.net [206.10.67.78]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id IAA11503; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 08:33:21 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <000901c083c7$cb9bf4a0$6100000a@vladsempire.net> From: "Josh Paetzel" To: , References: <3A6A866F.BD1C898A@attglobal.net> Subject: Re: Suggestion for FTP Sites Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 08:32:49 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Speare" To: Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 10:49 PM Subject: Suggestion for FTP Sites > With the advent of DSL and such, wouldn't it make sense to also have a > tar/gzip of the full releases? > > For example, it would be nice to be able to download freebsd-4.2.tar.gz > in one huge shot, instead of having to recurse through numerous > directories with wget or such in order to download the latest version. > > (Though I also do buy regular versions, and am a supporting member...) > > --Carl > > Why not just do an ftp install? Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message