From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 16 5:31:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web9302.mail.yahoo.com (web9302.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.129.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 05D2A37B401 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 05:31:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20010216133059.49772.qmail@web9302.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [212.253.3.41] by web9302.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 05:30:59 PST Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 05:30:59 -0800 (PST) From: Omer Faruk Sen Subject: Re: freeBSD ftp To: EVILEEN MASTERS Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Those files are ctm files.You need that Empty(they are called as start delta) file as a start point to make your source directory. How will you apply that to your system.I mean how you will install that source package?First mkdir /usr/src (Be sure it is empty before using ctm cd /usr/src #ctm -v -v /home/user/src.xxx-Empty.gz. After that you have to apply all those other ctm(Cvs Thru Mail) #ctm -v -v /home/user/src-* will aply all deltas to your system After having latest ctm.You can make your world easily(makeworld.html in handbook) But I am sure you have understood that it is better to install a RELEASE to make your world.First download an iso image of a release PS:Is there a way to install a stable system from scartch?Not using a release?Maybe with a floopy --- EVILEEN MASTERS wrote:
Hello,

for the past few days I have been downloading freeBSD from ftp. I have one question:

Are the empty files neccessary to download as part of the package?

For instance, src-cur.4700xEmpty.gz. This is an extremely large file of 80,056KB. I don't understand how a file that big can be "empty". There are several of these large empty files in the download area. I would like to know if they are necessary for running freeBSD. Because I would rather omit them if they are not needed too much. On my connection it would take about 8 hours to download the one mentioned above. I already downloaded one of these empty files, and it took 6 hours. This seems pretty long to me. As there are so many such files in the download area, it would just take too long to download them all.  Anyway, please help!

Thanks


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