FreeBSD 5.3 RC2 disk 1 ISO torrent available

[Bob Johnson]

Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 06:07:57PM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote:
> 
>>This is more of an announcement than a question, but:
>>
>>In the past, I've noticed questions from people looking for ISO image 
>>file torrents for FreeBSD.  To see if there really is a demand for this, 
>>I've set one up (only for FreeBSD 5.3RC2 i386 disk 1).  You can download 
>>the torrent file from http://www.eng.ufl.edu/bobj/FreeBSD-5_3_RC2.torrent
>>
>>I'm using bnbt for the tracker and seeding it with ctorrent.  For some 
>>reason it seems reluctant to seed to other copies of ctorrent, but works 
>>fine with other clients (e.g. qtorrent).  When possible, I'll keep 
>>another seed up with a different client to try to make sure a usable 
>>seed is always up.
>>
>>I'll also try to upload a copy to http://www.suprnova.org to get it more 
>>exposure.
> 
> 
> BTW, we're going to have 'official' torrents for the release this
> time.  Thanks for doing this for rc2 though.
> 
> Kris

OK, I should be able to use my seed system to provide a long-term seed 
to help with availability.

BTW, I forgot to open the firewall to allow public access to the 
tracker, so anyone who tried to get this torrent last night would have 
been unable to.  It's fixed now.

- Bob