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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!144.212.100.12!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!news.be.com!news1.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Partial Mirror -> Install Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 17:00:48 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 17 Message-ID: <332C97C0.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> References: <uyosp21sxve.fsf@secant.wv.tek.com> <uyorahks3n7.fsf@secant.wv.tek.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-GAMMA i386) To: "Stephen M. Wynne" <stevemw@secant.wv.tek.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37203 Stephen M. Wynne wrote: > 1. Find 1.0 GB of free disk somewhere (yes, I know it's not easy). > 2. Login to ftp.freebsd.org and get a set of archives. Use the .tar.gz > feature! (Note that ftp.freebsd.org isn't always able to send files > completely somehow, and GNU wget(1) and Netscape may hang). > > Example: ftp> get 2.2-GAMMA.tar.gz Just a small request, folks: Please do this as "get 2.2-GAMMA.tar" rather than as a gzip'd tar file. FreeBSD releases are *already* highly compressed, so by using the .gz you're only wasting CPU time on ftp.cdrom.com and making the resulting file LARGER in the end! :) Thanks.. -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.