Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 12:31:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca> To: Paul Michael Babuchna <mikeb@tcac.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: quick advise. Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960617122841.10803C-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960617121707.10803B-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
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On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > > I have been recently downloading BSD 2.1 from: > > > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE/bin > > > > and have run into a problem. I cannot download bin.au. I get an error > > message of the form- this sound file is corrupt or a file of incompatible > > format. Using Win95 and Win 3.1 and IE2.1. Oh, wait! IE2.1... Does that stand for Internet Explorer... Ok, all the below still stands... You should be able to feed Internet Explorer the url and expect it to work (on the other hand, it is Microsoft...). Since you have Windows 95, you can also use it's `ftp' command. Just type in `ftp' at the DOS prompt, and feel your way around from there. Probably something like `get /pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE/bin.tar.gz' would do the trick. -- > > First, make sure you have read the various bits of literature on > installing (something in the handbook at http://www.freebsd.org, and some > other small files in the ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE > directory). > > You may likely find it easier to do an ftp install. > > The reason for your error is simple -- netscape (correctly) assumes the > .au extension designates an audio file, which is correct most of the > time. This is similar to the problem where lynx, when downloading *.flp, > or bin.??, doesn't change to binary mode and downloads them as text. > > I think you can force Netscape to save bin.au as a file by right-clicking > on the like. The easiest solution, though, is download use the > on-the-fly tar & zipping capabilities of ftp.freebsd.org. Give netscape > the following url: > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE/bin.tar.gz > > and it should download all the bin directory in one big tar.gz file. > Then, just rename this to bin.tgz and put it into the appropriate > directory. > > > -- > Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! > tIM...HOEk > > -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk
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