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Date:      Thu, 26 Feb 1998 16:36:02 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        mike.somerby@bigfoot.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: how do I get files off the ftp site?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980226163501.655H-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <34F51AFB.9421FA75@xmission.com>

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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



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