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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Primary Site Archive Moved?
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 21:09:00 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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Todd Suess wrote:
> The reason I discovered this was when I went to reinstall, I tried to
> use ftp.freebsd.org (Primary Site) and it could not find the
> distribution files...  I finally got it to work by specifying the url:
> ftp://freebsd.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD

Uhhh.  Nothing at all has been moved, and
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD would have worked just as well. :-)

-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.