Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 10:39:34 -0600 (CST) From: Theodore Hope <freebsd@iguana.internexo.co.cr> To: doranj@Colorado.EDU (Jonathon Doran) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: downloading entire CD image by ftp? Message-ID: <199907021639.KAA05413@iguana.internexo.co.cr> In-Reply-To: <199907021624.KAA10286@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> from "Jonathon Doran" at Jul 2, 99 10:24:13 am
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> > We plan to do an ftp installation of 3.2, but instead of doing it > > to ftp.freebsd.org, we'd like to have previously downloaded the > > entire contents to another local machine so that the installation > > will be faster. > > While there are ISO CD images available, this is *not* what you are asking > for. You're right, the CD images aren't what I want (unless I have a cd writer and want to make the image myself, which I don't). > I am not aware of any single file which contains all the distribution files, > however its not too tough to replicate the 3.2-RELEASE directory on your > local system. At a minimum, just pull down the contents of "bin". The > distribution minus ports and packages contains 642 files, most of which > are in a single level below the release (release/bin release/src etc). > XFree86 has another level, and so is a little more work. But not too bad. > If you create the directories, a decent ftp client will recursively retrieve > the files for you. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll start with that. -Ted. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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