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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Primary Site Archive Moved?
Date: 16 Jun 1997 17:11:37 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <33a3f846.508041@news1.alterdial.uu.net>,
tsuess@inspace.net (Todd Suess) writes:
> I noticed that the primary FTP site moved from www.freebsd.org to
> freebsd.cdrom.com, which is cool, except apparently the same directory
> structure was not used because when I went to reinstall FreeBSD 2.2.2
> with the boot image I had, it could not find the distribution files,
> even when directly specifying ftp://freebsd.cdrom.com in the Media
> Manager potion of sysinstall.. Is a new boot image going to be
> generated that reflects the new path structure, or how is this going
> to be done exactly? Furthurmore, since many of the Makefiles for
> various ports call the old address, will all the ports have to be
> fixed too? I didn't even know the archive was being moved, was there
> an announcement that I missed,,, or am I just totally confused here?
>:)
I always thought the primary ftp site was ftp.freebsd.org -
a CNAME for wcarchive.cdrom.com (also the same as freebsd.cdrom.com).
It's true that www.freebsd.org moved, but in name only. The machine
is physically the same piece of hardware, and was always different
from freebsd.cdrom.com (well, for the last six months anyway).
> Todd
>
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
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