Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 11:27:01 -0500 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@bsdnet.org> To: Leif Neland <leifn@image.dk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Distribution Message-ID: <19980220112701.16441@mph124.rh.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <21d_9802201202@swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk>; from Leif Neland on Fri, Feb 20, 1998 at 08:52:10AM %2B0100 References: <19980220033239.1799.rocketmail@send1c.yahoomail.com> <21d_9802201202@swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk>
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On Fri, Feb 20, 1998 at 08:52:10AM +0100, Leif Neland wrote: > An Image?!? One big file of 600MB or so? That would be rather > difficult getting in one piece. Imagine if the line broke at 595MB. > Not all clients support resumed ftp's. Sure. Not everybody is prone to lines that "break". As a university student (in the US) living on campus, I have an ethernet connection to some large links to the world. I've transferred CD-ROM images on a number of occasions, and it's not so bad. One nice thing about images is that you can mount them directly, using the vn driver, and if it looks nice, burn it. Obviously, it doesn't make sense for everyone to grab CD images, but for some people it does. -- Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> * Think locally, act globally. http://mph124.rh.psu.edu/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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