FreeBSD 5.3 RC2 disk 1 ISO torrent available
CHris Rich
freebsdnews at gmail.com
Fri Nov 5 09:09:37 PST 2004
Once I get it downloaded I will try to seed it for as long as I can
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:
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> >>This is more of an announcement than a question, but:
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> >>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
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> >>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.
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> >>I'll also try to upload a copy to http://www.suprnova.org to get it more
> >>exposure.
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> > BTW, we're going to have 'official' torrents for the release this
> > time. Thanks for doing this for rc2 though.
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> > Kris
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> OK, I should be able to use my seed system to provide a long-term seed
> to help with availability.
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> 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.
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> - Bob
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