From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 19 11:57:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA18190 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 11:57:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from emu.state51.co.uk (emu.state51.co.uk [194.159.145.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA18179 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 11:57:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from [194.159.145.12] [194.159.145.12] by emu.state51.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.58 #1) id 0w7RUA-00008M-00; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 19:57:23 +0000 X-Sender: philip@mailgate.state51.co.uk Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 19:52:44 +0000 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Philip Crewdson Subject: UK mirror warning Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Just thought I'd pull out this bit of Rob Hartill's recent post, for anyone planning on using the UK ftp mirror. I don't go near it any more, having wasted a day trying to install from it some months ago. Is it really worth having if it never seems to be complete? > On a related subject. I got stung by the UK ftp "mirror" that's > missing huge sections of the distribution... I only found out > when the upgrade noticed the missing files and got jammed (there > was no way to recover gracefully from it). Philip ============= Philip Crewdson philip@state51.co.uk a member of the state51 conspiracy http://www.state51.co.uk/ raft crew http://www.vmg.co.uk/