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From: chilton@MCS.COM (Christopher Hilton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] ftp during install? own choice?
Date: 15 Mar 1995 09:12:43 -0600
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References: <JUN.95Mar15081713@fox.fax.iwa.fujixerox.co.jp>
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In article <JUN.95Mar15081713@fox.fax.iwa.fujixerox.co.jp>,
Junichi Kurokawa <jun@fox.fax.iwa.fujixerox.co.jp> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm about to finally upgrade my machine to FreeBSD-2.0.  I've downloaded
>all the necessary binaries so that the transfer afterwards will be
>easier.
>
>But one thing keeps botching me; I once heard that the installer
>automatically attempts to connect to ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/ if one
>chooses to download the package.  I don't really need that (ntm I
>can't.)

It's got a list of sites that you can ftp from and then you can put in
your own if you'd like. I slip into the net at home and have a T1 at
work so I usually download the distribution at work and hoof it home
on a tape.  Remember Tannenbaum's statement: "Never understimate the
bandwidth of a station wagon loaded with magtaps." From there I either
use ftp or nfs to install.

C.


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