From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 20 04:09:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAA7716A420 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 04:09:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wbs@infowest.com) Received: from tozar.infowest.com (tozar.out.smtp.infowest.com [204.17.177.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6D5B43D45 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 04:09:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wbs@infowest.com) Received: from alora.infowest.com (alora.client.smtp.infowest.com [204.17.177.61]) by tozar.infowest.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60AE42476C9; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 21:09:43 -0700 (MST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (207-224-214-244.slkc.qwest.net [207.224.214.244]) by alora.infowest.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D5B71E3075; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 21:09:43 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <43F94100.9040602@infowest.com> Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 21:09:36 -0700 From: Lorin Lund User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Luis Thillet References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Download X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 04:09:44 -0000 Luis Thillet wrote: > Dear Developers: > > > I have been trying (FOR A LONGTIME) to download a FreeBSD Unix OS > (i.e. 5.4, 6.0-RELEASE iso.i386). But it has never worked. I was > wondering if your company/team/crew have disabled it. > If no then how can I go about doing that. > > > Thank You... > > _________________________________________________________________ > Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! > http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Many weeks ago I succeeded in downloading 6.0. But if you don't have broadband it's nearly hopeless. When I first learned of FreeBSD - years ago - I tried downloading the ISO disks by modem. I would start a download at bedtime but it never worked for me. I had to do it with just the boot floppies and let the rest of the distribution packages download as they installed. I had a lot of restarts to get the whole thing. But even if you've got broadband it will probably take a while. I don't know if there are traffic shapers installed on the server or if it always fairly busy but you are likely to get an average speed lower than your broadband max speed.