FreeBSD 5.3 RC2 disk 1 ISO torrent available
Bob Johnson
bob88 at eng.ufl.edu
Fri Nov 5 09:03:29 PST 2004
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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