From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 20 08:56:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA22535 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 08:56:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from horton.iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA22490 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 08:56:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from proot@horton.iaces.com) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA16447; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 10:55:23 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199802201655.KAA16447@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Distribution To: mph@bsdnet.org (Matthew Hunt) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 10:55:23 -0600 (CST) Cc: leifn@image.dk, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980220112701.16441@mph124.rh.psu.edu> from Matthew Hunt at "Feb 20, 98 11:27:01 am" X-Organization: USWEST !nterprise Networking - ACES X-Phone: (612) 664-3385 X-Fax: (612) 664-4779 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55413 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In a previous message, Matthew Hunt said: > On Fri, Feb 20, 1998 at 08:52:10AM +0100, Leif Neland wrote: > > > An Image?!? One big file of 600MB or so? That would be rather > > difficult getting in one piece. Imagine if the line broke at 595MB. > > Not all clients support resumed ftp's. > > Sure. Not everybody is prone to lines that "break". As a university > student (in the US) living on campus, I have an ethernet connection > to some large links to the world. I've transferred CD-ROM images > on a number of occasions, and it's not so bad. One nice thing about > images is that you can mount them directly, using the vn driver, and > if it looks nice, burn it. > > Obviously, it doesn't make sense for everyone to grab CD images, > but for some people it does. But if it's there, someone will try to download it on a 28.8 or less modem in ascii mode and then blast us for poor software. Just look at the trouble people have with a boot floppy and blame us. I guess I shouldn't say 'us'. But I feel like part of the community, even if I've only contributed one port. -- "Are you any relation to your brother Marv?" -- Leon Wood, New Jersey Nets guard, to Steve Albert, Nets TV commentator To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message