From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 1 20: 8:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.digital.com (mail1.digital.com [204.123.2.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC059151E6 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 20:08:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eklee@pa.dec.com) Received: from src-mail.pa.dec.com (src-mail.pa.dec.com [16.4.16.35]) by mail1.digital.com (8.9.2/8.9.2/WV2.0g) with ESMTP id UAA13164; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 20:08:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by src-mail.pa.dec.com; id UAA13251; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 20:08:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <37044220.F148BC1E@pa.dec.com> Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 20:05:52 -0800 From: "Edward K. Lee" Reply-To: eklee@pa.dec.com Organization: Systems Research Center, Compaq Computer Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freeBSD tar files? References: <370431D4.25B344F5@pa.dec.com> <19990402132028.T413@lemis.com> <37043FCB.813304C7@pa.dec.com> <19990402133126.X413@lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sure, I'd just like a convenient way to download the full distribution, whether it's one big compressed tar file, or pieces of a tar file in one directory. That way, I can put the distribution on a local server and quickly install FreeBSD on all the PC's that I want off of that local server. Thanks, Ed Greg Lehey wrote: > > > It would be convenient if there were a directory with all the > > chunks, that is, bin.??, src.?? etc. so that you could just do one > > big mget. Folks who only want the base distribution could do an > > mget bin.*. > > Yes, I suppose so. Do you want to enter a PR? > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message