Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 10:55:23 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: mph@bsdnet.org (Matthew Hunt) Cc: leifn@image.dk, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Distribution Message-ID: <199802201655.KAA16447@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <19980220112701.16441@mph124.rh.psu.edu> from Matthew Hunt at "Feb 20, 98 11:27:01 am"
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
In a previous message, Matthew Hunt said: > 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. But if it's there, someone will try to download it on a 28.8 or less modem in ascii mode and then blast us for poor software. Just look at the trouble people have with a boot floppy and blame us. I guess I shouldn't say 'us'. But I feel like part of the community, even if I've only contributed one port. -- "Are you any relation to your brother Marv?" -- Leon Wood, New Jersey Nets guard, to Steve Albert, Nets TV commentator To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199802201655.KAA16447>