Downloading FreeBSD

2004-10-05 Thread Marcus Meng
Has anyone ever considered setting up a bittorrent tracker for FreeBSD distributions? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Downloading FreeBSD

2004-10-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-10-05 21:06, Marcus Meng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone ever considered setting up a bittorrent tracker for FreeBSD distributions? The usual methods (FTP, CVS, CVSup) work fine so far. What would that gain for the end-user who's sitting on a slow dialup link somewhere?

Re: Downloading FreeBSD

2004-10-05 Thread Troy Mills
The gain for dialup users would be indirect but ultimately everyone would benefit. Those who chose to do CVSup and download ISOs from the FTP server may see an indirect gain in speed as the bandwidth load (from those downloading ISO's) would distributed to the people who wish to help seed the

Re: Downloading FreeBSD

2004-10-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-10-05 10:04, Troy Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:52:06 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-10-05 21:06, Marcus Meng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone ever considered setting up a bittorrent tracker for FreeBSD distributions? The

Re: Downloading FreeBSD

2004-10-05 Thread nbco
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 17:08, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2004-10-05 10:04, Troy Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:52:06 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-10-05 21:06, Marcus Meng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone ever considered

Re: Downloading FreeBSD

2004-10-05 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
nbco wrote: Bittorrent is a type of p2p protocol: http://bittorrent.com/introduction.html Bittorrent would take the pressure off the servers as those who use it would effectively be getting the isos from those that already have them on their own boxes, in short it cuts the servers out of the

Re: Downloading FreeBSD

2004-10-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-10-05 16:35, nbco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 05 October 2004 17:08, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I'm asking because I don't know: a) What a bittorrent tracker is. b) What it takes to install and set up one. c) Why would I prefer it over FTP/CVSup? Your reply to c) seems

Re: Downloading FreeBSD 4.7

2003-07-03 Thread DanB
I have downloaded 4.8ISo and the md5 check sum. Where is the program md5 located? Can it run onan Window 98 machine to check the check sum number? Dan Jerry McAllister wrote: Thanks for your help. I was able to get in. Will you be able to tell me how to get the complete install CD

Downloading FreeBSD 4.7

2003-07-02 Thread Nowman
Hello, Will you please let me know any website to download the FreeBSD version 4.7. I really appreciate your response. I went to the freebsd.org to download but it asks for the password for ftp. I tried USA and UK sites. Thanks, Nowman - Do you Yahoo!?

Re: Downloading FreeBSD 4.7

2003-07-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello, Will you please let me know any website to download the FreeBSD version 4.7. I really appreciate your response. I went to the freebsd.org to download but it asks for the password for ftp. I tried USA and UK sites. Have you ever used anonymous ftp before? You log in with the name

Re: Downloading FreeBSD 4.7

2003-07-02 Thread Henrik Hudson
On Wednesday 02 July 2003 11:55, Nowman wrote: Hello, Will you please let me know any website to download the FreeBSD version 4.7. I really appreciate your response. I went to the freebsd.org to download but it asks for the password for ftp. I tried USA and UK sites. Any reason you aren't

Re: Downloading FreeBSD 4.7

2003-07-02 Thread Nowman
Thanks for your help. I was able to get in. Will you be able to tell me how to get the complete install CD downloaded. I tried to look around but could not find any place to download the whole install CD from the web. Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks, Nowman Jerry McAllister

Re: Downloading FreeBSD 4.7

2003-07-02 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 03:14:32PM -0700 or thereabouts, Nowman wrote: Thanks for your help. I was able to get in. Will you be able to tell me how to get the complete install CD downloaded. I tried to look around but could not find any place to download the whole install CD from the web.

Re: Downloading FreeBSD 4.7

2003-07-02 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 01:18:35PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: Hello, Will you please let me know any website to download the FreeBSD version 4.7. I really appreciate your response. I went to the freebsd.org to download but it asks for the password for ftp. I tried USA and UK

Re: Downloading FreeBSD 4.7

2003-07-02 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:22:13AM +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote: ... You may replace 'anonymous' with 'ftp' and can type anything in the pasword field. Custom says to use your e-mail address as the password. Some anonymous ftp servers are configured to reject connections with totally bogus

Re: Downloading FreeBSD 4.7

2003-07-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
Thanks for your help. I was able to get in. Will you be able to tell me how to get the complete install CD downloaded. I tried to look around but could not find any place to download the whole install CD from the web. First, something you can do to help make your messages more useful and

Trouble Downloading FreeBSD

2003-03-27 Thread Ahmed XP
Hi All, QUESTION: Why servers containing FeeBSD installations don't support broken downloads? Is there any workaround to this problem? Is this something to do with security or something like that? I tried first image but it was disconnected at about 135 MB and later file transfer started

Trouble Downloading FreeBSD

2003-03-27 Thread Ahmed XP
Hi All, QUESTION: Why servers containing FeeBSD installations don't support broken downloads? Is there any workaround to this problem? Is this something to do with security or something like that? I tried first image but it was disconnected at about 135 MB and later file transfer started

Re: Trouble Downloading FreeBSD

2003-03-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
Ahmed XP wrote: Hi All, Hi-- QUESTION: Why servers containing FeeBSD installations don't support broken downloads? Is there any workaround to this problem? Is this something to do with security or something like that? Which FTP server were you using, and how did you retry? ftp.freebsd.com

Please send me link for Downloading FreeBSd Trial FreeBSD On CD

2003-03-10 Thread Ahmad Imran
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Re: Please send me link for Downloading FreeBSd Trial FreeBSD On CD

2003-03-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2003-03-11 04:27, Ahmad Imran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good Day Please send me link for Downloading FreeBSd Trial obtain FreeBSD On CD/DVD etc. If you look at the front page of www.FreeBSD.org you will easily spot a link for Getting FreeBSD. It points to: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc