Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 13:26:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: William Bracken <vrman@mpinet.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd download Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808131325480.11633-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <001b01bdc6cc$c2a89ca0$acfacbcf@raffie>
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On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, William Bracken wrote: > I am trying to get the freebsd source files for install. But I always > end up in an ftp directory with several files that make no sense to > me. Is there are zip or tar for freebsd? No, it would be ~150 megabytes. :) The small files are actually tar.gz archives split into 240k chunks. To reconstitute the part you want, download all of the [name].* files, then use cat [name].* | tar xzf - to extract them. 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
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