From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 18 12:59:56 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA27097 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 12:59:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts8-line9.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.73]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id MAA27092 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 12:59:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA00544; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 12:59:36 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 12:59:35 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Szabolcs Szigeti (PinkPanther)" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to become a mirror? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Szabolcs Szigeti (PinkPanther) wrote: > I'd like to get some info on mirroring FreeBSD. We'd like to > make a complete or nearly complete mirror, here, in Hungary. Neat! > My question is: how much disk space would we need? (The > whole thing depends on this, unfortunately). I think the majority of it lies on a 2GB disk. You would have to ask. > What would you recommend about partitioning the mirrored stuff? > Like mirrorin only the latest releases and so on. > Because i don't think that we are able to mirror > all of ftp.freebsd.org. You only need everything under ftp.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD. If you were really hurting you could exclude the old SNAPs, but the most current RELEASE and SNAPS/ALPHA/BETAs need to be there. Consult the following pages for contact information (esp. the 'admin@freebsd.org' mailto): http://www.freebsd.org/mirror.html http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook245.html Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major