From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 8 4:45:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay3-gui.server.ntli.net (relay3-gui.server.ntli.net [194.168.4.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5793237B41B for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 04:45:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc3-card3-0-cust122.cdf.cable.ntl.com ([62.254.251.122] helo=rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net ident=exim) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 161oYO-0006eH-00; Thu, 08 Nov 2001 12:45:08 +0000 Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 161oYF-00010K-00; Thu, 08 Nov 2001 12:44:59 +0000 Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 12:44:59 +0000 From: setantae To: Jim Mock Cc: Anthony Atkielski , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Where is ftp.freesoftware.com? Message-ID: <20011108124459.GA3798@rhadamanth> Mail-Followup-To: setantae , Jim Mock , Anthony Atkielski , FreeBSD Questions References: <006c01c1684a$6b372810$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011108123434.GA5361@helios.soupnazi.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011108123434.GA5361@helios.soupnazi.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 04:34:34AM -0800, Jim Mock wrote: > On Thu, 08 Nov 2001 at 12:42:06 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > I'm trying to fix up linux_base from the ports and just about every > > file seems to have to come from ftp.freesoftware.com, which no longer > > exists. How am I supposed to install anything this way? Most of the > > other mirrors don't work, either. > > ftp.freesoftware.com has been dead for quite some time (at least 6 > months or so). IIRC, the UK mirror has the linux_base bits and is > fairly quick (I'm in California). It definitely does - I downloaded them from there yesterday. ftp.mirror.ac.uk Ceri -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message