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Date:      Tue, 21 Apr 1998 11:34:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Winston Mattson <s9762907@minyos.its.rmit.EDU.AU>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: downloading via ftp server
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980421113311.4074G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980421134214.31360A-100000@minyos.its.rmit.EDU.AU>

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On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Winston Mattson wrote:

> I would like to download all the free bsd files (rel 2.2.6 I think the
> version is called) to a local server on my network and then install it
> from their.

Excellent idea.

> Do you have the full release in one file or broken up into a couple so
> that downloading is eayser?  If you don't would you be able to put the
> directory in to compressed zip files for example to make it easyer to
> download?  Say about 25+meg each??

Actually, it's broken up into 240KB chunks and several distributions
(except X).  You have to grab bin/ and will want to grab floppies/ and
probably tools/, but the rest is optional.  This list may help:

FreeBSD File Requirements:
  
REQUIRED:
        floppies/boot.flp (boot floppy image)
        tools/fdimage.exe (DOS bootfloppy image writer)
        bin/*
 
RECOMMENDED:
        manpages/
        compat*/
        doc/    (at your discretion)
        src/ssys.*
 

> If you do, what would the ftp server address and the directory location
> be?

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.6-RELEASE/

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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