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Date:      Sat, 5 Jun 1999 23:02:29 +0600 (ESS)
From:      Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su>
To:        Amrit Pal Singh Bamrah <abamrah@idirect.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Burning FreeBSD CDs
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906052257570.393-100000@jane.cgu.chel.su>
In-Reply-To: <37593724.4E2B44AA@idirect.com>

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> As I understand 3.2-RELEASE supports bootable CD. I am thinking of
> downloading this release then burn my own CDs to use it. Let us say, I
> have downloaded everything under ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/3.2-RELEASE
> directory and ready to burn my CDs. My question:
> 
> 1. What should be copied to 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th CD? This is the stuff
> that Walnut Creek sells. 
> 
> 2. What happens to the symbolic links on the FTP site. How do I
> reproduce them while downloading or are they simply for FTP installs?

cd /usr/ports/net/lftp
make 
make install

....
#lftp ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/
lftp>mirror 3.2-RELEASE <local-directory>
...
that's it !

> 
> 3. Is there any other thing that I need to do to retain long names while
> burning?

cd /usr/ports/sysutils/mkisofs
make 
make install

it'll take care about names/permissions/links/etc

> 
> Please provide me any other information that I need to get going.
> 
> Thanks for your time.
> 
> Amrit
> 
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