Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 01:04:49 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2-BETA installation floppies don't work Message-ID: <199612250904.BAA02062@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Dec 1996 02:35:03 EST." <199612250735.CAA02824@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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>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). Yes, well, most people are getting the bits with dialup SLIP or PPP and 240K/chunk is rather large in that case. I'd prefer that the chunk size stay at 240K... -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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