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From: Valentino Vaschetto <logo@FreeBSD.org>
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To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
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Subject: Re: sysinstall listed mirrors
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I must have overlooked that. But back to the concept.. should we list more
tier 1 mirrors in sysinstall?

-val

On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Will Andrews wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 05:55:25AM -0700, Valentino Vaschetto (logo@FreeBSD.org) wrote:
> > I've sent a patch to Murray about listing ftp mirrors 7, 8, 9 and 10 in
> > menus.c of sysinstall. I don't know if there was ever a decision made, but
> > I seem to remember that all ftp*.freebsd.org servers would be 'Tier 1'
> > servers and would carry all of the ftp archives which would make them
> > suitable to be listed in sysinstall.
>
> Be careful about just blindly adding them:
>
> > +      { " USA #9",      "ftp9.freebsd.org", NULL, dmenuSetVariable, NULL,
> > +        VAR_FTP_PATH "=ftp://ftp9.freebsd.org" },
>
> This server is on the Purdue Data Network (via CERIAS at Purdue
> University), so I am familiar with it.  However, it doesn't
> follow standard /pub/FreeBSD naming.  If you connect to it,
> you'll notice the prefix is /pub/os/FreeBSD instead...
>
> --
> wca
>


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