Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 12:15:15 -0500 (CDT) From: Patrick Walentiny <pezzy@vntech.com> To: Jonathon Doran <doranj@Colorado.EDU> Cc: Theodore Hope <freebsd@iguana.internexo.co.cr>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: downloading entire CD image by ftp? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907021214280.4597-100000@mercenary.vntech.com> In-Reply-To: <199907021624.KAA10286@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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Just for my own reference, I knew there were ISO's out there somewhere, but I have never been able to find them. Where are they hiding? Patrick On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Jonathon Doran wrote: > > 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. > > 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. > > Jon Doran > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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