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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!ub!evita!mazumdar From: mazumdar@cs.fredonia.edu (Jin Mazumdar) Subject: Re: FTP install X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: news@cs.fredonia.edu (System-wide Dump) Organization: Math / CS, State Univ. of NY college at Fredonia Message-ID: <DGnBsF.FF5@cs.fredonia.edu> References: <460s03$q42@news.bu.edu> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: del.cs.fredonia.edu Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 13:21:51 GMT Lines: 21 I would like to make a suggestion to the FreeBSD team in this context. In the installation of FreeBSD there appears to be no option to fetch files from a user defined machine which does not support anonymous ftp. If this feature is added users could be encouraged to get the files once from the primary site and then consequently use their home machine to install additional machines. This would cut down the load on the primary and mirror sites. -- Jin Mazumdar (internet:) mazumdar@cs.fredonia.edu >>> Dept. Of Math and C. S. <<< >>> State University of New York College at Fredonia <<< >>> Fredonia, N.Y. 14063 (716) 673 3459 <<<