Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 00:17:19 -0400 From: "Derek Flowers" <djflow@erols.com> To: "Carroll Kong" <damascus@eden.rutgers.edu> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD CD Message-ID: <006601bdb783$1e695420$0100000a@home2>
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-----Original Message-----
From: Carroll Kong <damascus@eden.rutgers.edu>
To: Adrian Penisoara <ady@warpnet.ro>
Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Friday, July 24, 1998 8:26 PM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD CD
>> Did you try wget (ports/net/wget) ? I use 'wget -m URL' here and it
works
>> with symlinks (it will make the symlinks but won't retrieve the linked
>> file unless you will request it).
>>
>> Just my $0.02
>> Ady (@freebsd.ady.ro)
>
>Oh wow... more than just 2 cents for me! I started this morning, still
>downloading since ftp.cdrom.com is so slow.. thanks a million.
>
>I am also going to try the other guys' idea...
>
>Carroll Kong
>
>
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I use net/mirror to mirror everything for the 2.2.7-RELEASE branch right off
of ftp.freebsd.org using the following mirror-config file:
-----Begin-----
package=defaults
local_dir=/ftp/pub/FreeBSD
remote_dir=/pub/FreeBSD
mail_to=
mode_copy=true
exclude_patt=(^|/)(\.mirror$|core$|\.cap|\.in\..*\.$|MIRROR\.LOG|#.*#|\.FSP|
\.cache|\.zipped|\.notar|\.message|lost\+found/|Network Trash Folder)
compress_excl+|-z(\d+)?$|\.tgz|_tgz|\.tar\.Z|\.tar\.gz|\.taz$|\.arc$|\.zip$|
\.lzh$|\.zoo$|\.exe$|\.lha$|\.zom$|\.gif$|\.jpeg$|\.jpg$|\.mpeg$|\.au$|\.shk
$|read.*me|index|info|faq|gzip|compress|(^|/)\.\.?$
delete_excl=(^|/)\.(mirror|notar|cache)$
local_ignore=README.doc.ic|(^|/)\.(mirror|notar)$
do_deletes=true
max_delete_files=100%
max_delete_dirs=100%
site=ftp.freebsd.org
package=FreeBSD-2.2.7
comment=Powerful and free BSD version of Un*x
remote_dir+/2.2.7-RELEASE
local_dir+/2.2.7-RELEASE
package=Packages
comment=Binary packages for FreeBSD
remote_dir+/packages-2.2.7
local_dir+/packages-2.2.7
package=Tools
comment=Tools for FreeBSD
remote_dir+/tools
local_dir+/tools
package=Docs
comment=Docs for FreeBSD
remote_dir+/docs
local_dir+/docs
package=Newsletter
comment=Newsletter for FreeBSD
remote_dir+/newsletter
local_dir+/newsletter
-----End-----
Using this method allows for corrections to any files such as the recent X
changes, as long as you remirror every now and then.
At the least, you need FreeBSD-2.2.7, Packages, and Tools to create a
working CD image. The packages are a problem because they total over 900MB.
If you trim off the chinese, korean, russian, vietnamese, and other language
based packages, you can fit the rest of the packages onto one CD. Placing
the language packages with the distributions, tools, docs, and newsletters,
you could fit the entire system onto two CD's. If you use mkisofs to create
the iso images, don't forget to make the boot sector point to the boot.flp
image. Also, make sure the packages are located in the packages directory
on the CD so sysinstall will see them.
Let me know your solution for the package size problem.
-Derek
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