From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Dec 24 23:35:06 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id XAA01022 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 24 Dec 1996 23:35:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id XAA01016 for ; Tue, 24 Dec 1996 23:35:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from henrich@localhost) by crh.cl.msu.edu (8.8.2/8.8.2) id CAA02824; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 02:35:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 02:35:03 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Henrich Message-Id: <199612250735.CAA02824@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2-BETA installation floppies don't work Newsgroups: lists.freebsd.bugs References: <59qbjb$2656@msunews.cl.msu.edu> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In lists.freebsd.bugs you write: >> The 2.2-ALPHA floppies were fine, but the BETA release has some >> problems: >> 1. After I setup everything and start formatting/downloading, the >> FTP connection cannot be open (the same setup, hardware was working >> with ALPHA) >Try again - I had the version number wrong and just re-rolled and replaced >the BETA floppies on ftp.freebsd.org. :-} Cool! :) I thought I had copied everything correctly :) One comment, would it be possible to increase the chunk size of the distributions? Its just too small to get any good streaming, with the standard distributions I was seeing ~70K/sec, with the X distributions (larger .tgz files) I was getting consistantly 200K+/sec (this is all over a cable network, sort of like an install one T1 away from cdrom.com). -Crh -- Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich