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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!news.tek.com!usenet From: stevemw@secant.wv.tek.com (Stephen M. Wynne) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Partial Mirror -> Install Date: 11 Mar 1997 17:27:33 -0800 Organization: Tektronix, Inc, Beaverton, OR, USA Lines: 21 Message-ID: <uyosp21sxve.fsf@secant.wv.tek.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: secant.wv.tek.com X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36892 I'm currently at FreeBSD 2.1.0. I'm thinking of mirroring the parts I want of one archive and then installing off of NFS afterward. How hard is this to do? I can run wget(1) from a reasonably fast network and move the bits over by tape to within ethernet reach of my device. Don't I need to avoid the "packages" directory in order to keep from transferring tons of stuff I don't need? How can I find out how large a SNAP or RELEASE is? A subdirectory within a RELEASE? Mostly wanting the Java, recent GNU tools, and the most Japanese text-processing packages I can find, I haven't made up my mind yet which release to install, either :-) If this turns out to be easy enough, I wouldn't mind an iterative process to move from say 2.1.7 to 2.2 over the next few months. If it's a huge pain, I guess I'll order CDs... Thanks, Steve