FreeBSD 5.3 RC2 disk 1 ISO torrent available

[CHris Rich]

I finished downloading it fine, so your end is probably working ok, I
will continue seeding to help anyone else who wants to grab it


On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 11:09:35 -0600, CHris Rich <freebsdnews at gmail.com> wrote:
> Once I get it downloaded I will try to seed it for as long as I can
> 
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> On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 12:03:28 -0500, Bob Johnson <bob88 at eng.ufl.edu> wrote:
> >
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> >
> >
> > 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
> >
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