Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 12:03:28 -0500 From: Bob Johnson <bob88@eng.ufl.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 RC2 disk 1 ISO torrent available Message-ID: <418BB260.2010007@eng.ufl.edu> In-Reply-To: <20041104233225.GA89577@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <418AB64D.4010009@eng.ufl.edu> <20041104233225.GA89577@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 06:07:57PM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: > >>This is more of an announcement than a question, but: >> >>In the past, I've noticed questions from people looking for ISO image >>file torrents for FreeBSD. To see if there really is a demand for this, >>I've set one up (only for FreeBSD 5.3RC2 i386 disk 1). You can download >>the torrent file from http://www.eng.ufl.edu/bobj/FreeBSD-5_3_RC2.torrent >> >>I'm using bnbt for the tracker and seeding it with ctorrent. For some >>reason it seems reluctant to seed to other copies of ctorrent, but works >>fine with other clients (e.g. qtorrent). When possible, I'll keep >>another seed up with a different client to try to make sure a usable >>seed is always up. >> >>I'll also try to upload a copy to http://www.suprnova.org to get it more >>exposure. > > > BTW, we're going to have 'official' torrents for the release this > time. Thanks for doing this for rc2 though. > > Kris OK, I should be able to use my seed system to provide a long-term seed to help with availability. BTW, I forgot to open the firewall to allow public access to the tracker, so anyone who tried to get this torrent last night would have been unable to. It's fixed now. - Bob
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