From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 7 13:47:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (unknown [203.96.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA64014C28 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 13:47:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.152.24]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990707205117.IIFS536080.mta1-rme@wocker>; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 08:51:17 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: MWingate@cbm-wa.com (Marcel R. Wingate) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 08:47:50 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: FreeBSD FTP Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199907072032.OAA02361@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> References: from "Marcel R. Wingate" at Jul 7, 99 11:04:46 am X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990707205117.IIFS536080.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 7 Jul 99, at 14:32, Jonathon Doran wrote: > > How do I create an ftp "mirror" of FreeBSD? I want to have a local ftp > > site at my organization from which to install or update freebsd. Is it > > as simple as copying the tree or is it more involved? > > Yes, it is as simple as copying the tree. I do this myself. > > I created a "freebsd" user. Under its home I placed directories such as > 3.2-RELEASE. Copy the contents of the desired version into a directory > with the same name as on ftp.cdrom.com. Then point the installing machine > to your server. DOH! I missed that. If all you want to do is a one-off install, then yes, do the above. And ignore my previous message. rsync/mirror is overkill for this. They are use to actively create/maintain an ftp mirror site (e.g. something like ftp.nz.freebsd.org). -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message