Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 23:49:03 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: Carl Speare <carlds@attglobal.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggestion for FTP Sites Message-ID: <20010120234903.P10761@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> In-Reply-To: <3A6A866F.BD1C898A@attglobal.net>; from carlds@attglobal.net on Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:49:19AM -0500 References: <3A6A866F.BD1C898A@attglobal.net>
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On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:49:19AM -0500, Carl Speare wrote: > With the advent of DSL and such, wouldn't it make sense to also have a > tar/gzip of the full releases? > > For example, it would be nice to be able to download freebsd-4.2.tar.gz > in one huge shot, instead of having to recurse through numerous > directories with wget or such in order to download the latest version. > > (Though I also do buy regular versions, and am a supporting member...) You can get it all in one lump, $ ftp ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.2-RELEASE.tar But not all ftp servers support this. You can also download a whole ISO image if you really want to waste some bandwidth. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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