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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 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Dec 1996 02:35:03 EST."
             <199612250735.CAA02824@crh.cl.msu.edu> 
From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 01:04:49 -0800
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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