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- Remove the list of currently existing snapshots and just point

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people at the FTP directory.  It's very often the list is out of
  date and the list doesn't bring much useful information which can't
  quickly be found by just looking in the FTP directories.
- Note that snapshots are currently done for FreeBSD 6, 7, and 8.

Discussed with:	kensmith
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Simon L. B. Nielsen 2008-03-10 17:03:38 +00:00
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional-Based Extension//EN" [
<!ENTITY base CDATA "..">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/snapshots/index.sgml,v 1.41 2007/10/27 18:30:20 simon Exp $">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/snapshots/index.sgml,v 1.42 2007/12/09 05:48:49 dougb Exp $">
<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD Snapshot Releases">
<!ENTITY % navinclude.download "INCLUDE">
<!ENTITY % developers SYSTEM "../developers.sgml"> %developers;
<!ENTITY url.snapshots "ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots">
]>
<!-- $FreeBSD: www/en/snapshots/index.sgml,v 1.41 2007/10/27 18:30:20 simon Exp $ -->
<!-- $FreeBSD: www/en/snapshots/index.sgml,v 1.42 2007/12/09 05:48:49 dougb Exp $ -->
<html>
&header;
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<h2>Getting Snapshots</h2>
<p>The latest snapshots made available are the following:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="&url.snapshots;/200712/">December 2007 - 8.0-CURRENT for amd64, i386, ia64, pc98, powerpc, and sparc64</a></li>
<li><a href="&url.snapshots;/200710/">October 2007 - 6.2-STABLE and 7.0-CURRENT for amd64, i386, ia64, pc98, powerpc, and sparc64</a></li>
<li><a href="&url.snapshots;/200709/">September 2007 - 6.2-STABLE and 7.0-CURRENT for amd64, i386, ia64, pc98, powerpc, and sparc64</a></li>
<li><a href="&url.snapshots;/200708/">August 2007 - 6.2-STABLE and 7.0-CURRENT for amd64, i386, ia64, pc98, powerpc (7.0 only), and sparc64</a></li>
<!-- template for adding a new entry:
Keep entries in this list as long as their corresponding files are on the FTP site.
<li><a href="&url.snapshots;/200605/">Snapshots in May 2006 (alpha, amd64, i386, ia64, pc98, sparc64)</a>
</li>
-->
</ul>
<p>If a snapshot for your architecture or the version of
FreeBSD that you require is not available from the
directories above, older snapshots are usually available
from <a href="&url.snapshots;">&url.snapshots;</a>. It
is worth checking there to see if a snapshot that meets
your need is present.</p>
<p>The latest snapshots made available can be found on the FreeBSD
FTP mirrors at the address <a
href="&url.snapshots;">&url.snapshots;</a>. They can also be
found in the same directory on other FTP
<a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html">mirror
sites</a>.</p>
<p>Currently the snapshots of
<a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html#CURRENT">7-CURRENT</a>
<a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html#CURRENT">8-CURRENT</a>,
<a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html#STABLE">7-STABLE</a>,
and
<a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html#STABLE">6-STABLE</a>
are released monthly in directories whose URLs have the format