From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 4 05:25:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA15789 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 05:25:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA15784 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 05:25:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA25209; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 05:22:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199808041222.FAA25209@implode.root.com> To: malte.lance@gmx.net cc: esl , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Download In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 04 Aug 1998 12:43:01 +0200." <13766.57726.330621.12579@neuron.webmore.de> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 05:22:49 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >esl writes: > > Is there a way to download all of > > ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.7-RELEASE in to a compressed tar archive > > without downloading each piece one-by-one? What is the best way to > > download the entire distribution? I know there are CD-ROMs but they > > seemed to be outdated. > >AFAIK ftp.freebsd.org is capable of on-the-fly-compression. >When in /pub/FreeBSD type one of the following commands: >get 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar.gz >get 2.2.7-RELEASE.tgz >get 2.2.7-RELEASE.gz >get 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar As with most files on wcarchive, the 2.2.7-RELEASE bits are already compressed. We don't support on-the-fly compression since it justs wastes CPU cycles when trying to compress the data twice. We do support on-the-fly tar, however, so "get 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar" does work. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message