From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 26 16:36:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA05687 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 16:36:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA05675 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 16:36:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA00697; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 16:36:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 16:36:02 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: mike.somerby@bigfoot.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how do I get files off the ftp site? In-Reply-To: <34F51AFB.9421FA75@xmission.com> 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, 26 Feb 1998, Mike Somerby wrote: > I found the ftp directorys that have different versions of FreeBSD, but > am I supposed to click on each file and copy it to a corresponding > folder on my harddrive? That would take hours....... You just need to grab the bits you want. See http://www.lemis.com/handbook/what-to-download.html. > Please help, a little advice on how to down a version, with just one > click and save. Such a file would be 150 megabytes; you don't want to download that in one shot. 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