From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 18 13:17:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA23385 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 13:17:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA23380 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 13:17:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (root@buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by ref.tfs.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA02812 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 13:17:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA31569 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 15:16:29 GMT Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa14614; 18 Jun 96 16:17 EDT Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 16:17:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve To: Charles Henrich cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A useful mirror, anywhere?! In-Reply-To: <199606181451.KAA02719@crh.cl.msu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk If you are installing 2.1r remotely and if you have more than 8mb in the machine, pull all but 8 out until after you are done installing. Ive found this to work. On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Charles Henrich wrote: > Does anyone, anywhere, have a mirror that actually works?! The one out of > ports just spins, the one I had previously bloats and sucks up 200MB ram and > dies. Do I really need to write a C version of this beasty? > > -Crh > > Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu > > http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich >