On 2004-10-05 16:35, nbco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 October 2004 17:08, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > I'm asking because I don't know:
> >
> > a) What a bittorrent tracker is.
> > b) What it takes to install and set up one.
> > c) Why would I prefer it over FTP/CVSup?
> >
> > Your r
nbco wrote:
Bittorrent is a type of p2p protocol: http://bittorrent.com/introduction.html
Bittorrent would take the pressure off the servers as those who use it would
effectively be getting the isos from those that already have them on their
own boxes, in short it cuts the servers out of the pic
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 17:08, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2004-10-05 10:04, Troy Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:52:06 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas
> >
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On 2004-10-05 21:06, Marcus Meng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Has anyone ev
On 2004-10-05 10:04, Troy Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:52:06 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 2004-10-05 21:06, Marcus Meng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Has anyone ever considered setting up a bittorrent tracker for FreeBSD
> > > distribut
The "gain" for dialup users would be indirect but ultimately everyone
would benefit. Those who chose to do CVSup and download ISOs from the
FTP server may see an indirect gain in speed as the bandwidth load
(from those downloading ISO's) would distributed to the people who
wish to help seed the tor
On 2004-10-05 21:06, Marcus Meng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone ever considered setting up a bittorrent tracker for FreeBSD
> distributions?
The usual methods (FTP, CVS, CVSup) work fine so far. What would that
gain for the end-user who's sitting on a slow dialup link somewhere?
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On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:21:34PM + or thereabouts, DanB wrote:
> I have downloaded 4.8ISo and the md5 check sum. Where is the program md5 located?
> Can it run onan Window 98 machine to check the check sum number?
> Dan
Try here (it was the first one I found):
http://www.pc-tools.net/win32/f
I have downloaded 4.8ISo and the md5 check sum. Where is the program md5 located?
Can it run onan Window 98 machine to check the check sum number?
Dan
Jerry McAllister wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for your help. I was able to get in. Will you be able to tell me
> > how to get the complete install CD dow
>
> Thanks for your help. I was able to get in. Will you be able to tell me
> how to get the complete install CD downloaded. I tried to look around
> but could not find any place to download the whole install CD from the web.
First, something you can do to help make your messages more useful an
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:22:13AM +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote:
...
>You may replace 'anonymous' with 'ftp' and can type anything in the
>pasword field.
Custom says to use your e-mail address as the password. Some anonymous ftp
servers are configured to reject connections with totally bogus pas
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 01:18:35PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > Will you please let me know any website to download the FreeBSD version 4.7.
> > I really appreciate your response. I went to the freebsd.org to download
> > but it asks for the password for ftp. I tried USA and
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 03:14:32PM -0700 or thereabouts, Nowman wrote:
> Thanks for your help. I was able to get in. Will you be able to tell
> me how to get the complete install CD downloaded. I tried to look
> around but could not find any place to download the whole install CD
> from the web.
f
Thanks for your help. I was able to get in. Will you be able to tell me how to get the
complete install CD downloaded. I tried to look around but could not find any place to
download the whole install CD from the web.
Any help is highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Nowman
Jerry McAllister <[EMA
On Wednesday 02 July 2003 11:55, Nowman wrote:
> Hello,
> Will you please let me know any website to download the FreeBSD version
> 4.7. I really appreciate your response. I went to the freebsd.org to
> download but it asks for the password for ftp. I tried USA and UK sites.
Any reason you aren't
>
> Hello,
> Will you please let me know any website to download the FreeBSD version 4.7.
> I really appreciate your response. I went to the freebsd.org to download
> but it asks for the password for ftp. I tried USA and UK sites.
Have you ever used anonymous ftp before?
You log in with the nam
Hello,
Will you please let me know any website to download the FreeBSD version 4.7. I really
appreciate your response. I went to the freebsd.org to download but it asks for the
password for ftp. I tried USA and UK sites.
Thanks,
Nowman
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Ahmed XP wrote:
Hi All,
Hi--
QUESTION:
Why servers containing FeeBSD installations don't support broken
downloads? Is there any workaround to this problem? Is this something to
do with security or something like that?
Which FTP server were you using, and how did you retry?
ftp.freebsd.com suppor
Hi All,
QUESTION:
Why servers containing FeeBSD installations don't support broken downloads? Is there
any workaround to this problem? Is this something to do with security or something
like that?
I tried first image but it was disconnected at about 135 MB and later file transfer
started f
Hi All,
QUESTION:
Why servers containing FeeBSD installations don't support broken downloads? Is there
any workaround to this problem? Is this something to do with security or something
like that?
I tried first image but it was disconnected at about 135 MB and later file transfer
started f
On 2003-03-11 04:27, Ahmad Imran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Good Day
> Please send me link for Downloading FreeBSd Trial & obtain FreeBSD
> On CD/DVD etc.
If you look at the front page of www.FreeBSD.org you will easily spot
a link for "Getting FreeBSD". It points
Good Day
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