ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org does not seem to have the actual isos ncftp ...SD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.2 > pwd ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.2/ This URL is also valid on this server: ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.2/ ncftp ...SD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.2 > ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1 65532 65532 258 Dec 26 15:49 CHECKSUM.MD5 -rw-r--r-- 1 65532 65532 398 Dec 26 15:50 CHECKSUM.SHA256 randy