Problems with your ftp site

[Jerry McAllister]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 11:39:25AM +0100, Nino Ivanov wrote:

> 
> Dear Sir or Madam,
> 
> I tried reaching
> 
> ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/
> 
> from my Windows XP machine, using Firefox 2.0.0.2, and it requires me to
> input a username and a password. The same happens with IE7. I would like to
> download old ISO images. Is this a bug, or is it some new regular behaviour,
> and in any case, is there a way to download these images?

This is an anonymous ftp site.   
So, when it asks for login id, give it  anonymous
When it asks for password, give it  your email address.
Then it should work fine.

////jerry

> 
> NetBSD archives work well, so it is not a problem in my machine I think.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Nino Ivanov
> 
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