From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 23 12:49:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA00466 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:49:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pluto.njcc.com (root@pluto.njcc.com [165.254.117.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA00458 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:49:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from khansen.cc.bellcore.com (khansen.cc.bellcore.com [128.96.164.203]) by pluto.njcc.com (8.8.7/8.8.3) with SMTP id PAA26285; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 15:47:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <342816E3.23DF@njcc.com> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 15:48:12 -0400 From: Ken Hansen Reply-To: khansen@njcc.com Organization: Dis X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White CC: "Todd S. Hansen (Taco)" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Only 2 US ftp servers for FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As a side note, I recently installed FreeBSD 2.2.2 from the diskette and I also found it hard to pick a server to install from (the messages at the time were that it was unable to resolve server name, I think), but when I decided to just pick ftp.freebsd.org - it ran fine, averaging 3 KB/sec on my dial-up (I did notice that FreeBSD and my ISP appear to be on the same backbone)! I probably could have done a bit faster, but I limited the serial speed to 28,800 bps to reduce errors (old serial port/uart). I was VERY impressed with the install process, it was very straight-forward, not unlike Red Hat Linux. Ken khansen@njcc.com Doug White wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, Todd S. Hansen (Taco) wrote: > > > I just (like 1 hour ago) tried to upgrade freebsd on my system. I was > > scared to find out that only two of six the US based ftp servers listed > > in the choices on the floppy actually exist (2 don't exist) and have the > > proper directories in which the config program looks to download > > FreeBSD. I thought I would just make sure you guys know, Because those > > two servers seem to have quite a large load on them, (I got 1.6 Kbps on > > multiple T3's). Thanks. > > Well, that depends on which version you're trying to install. > > If you're trying an old version, the old version files were probably > removed. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo