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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 11:16:08 -0500
From: Craig Shrimpton <craigs@os.com>
Subject: Re: UK 2.1.5 Mirror CORRUPT?
To: Philip Crewdson <philip@state51.co.uk>
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On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Philip Crewdson wrote:

> 
> I tried installing via FTP, NFS and from a DOS partition, with exactly the
> same result each time: "Write failure on transfer" at some point in most of
> the directories.
> 

Got that from ftp6.freebsd.org

> As a last resort, I tried FTP-ing from FreeBSD.org itself - perfect
> installation first time, and twice the speed I was getting from Imperial
> down the road.
> 

The only "known" good site.

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