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I install from pkg and it is very slow, when I install the desktop KDE for 1GB It takes hours, very slow speed. On Linux, it more fast for 1 GB to download I have edited mirror on FreeBSD.conf Pkg0.twn.freebsd.prg (I am in Asia) so I use Taiwan for the closest mirror. Is there any something I...

Hey all, right now I'm trying to setup public mirror for FreeBSD in Armenia. I know how to setup www, ftp and www for ftp, however I'm having a hard time understanding how to setup a public SVN, basically I want to mirror https://svn.freebsd.org/ports/head at our server so people can use the...

I have a machine with three 2TB drives mirroring the single zroot zpool. Is there a command sequence to pull one of those drives from the mirror, make the mirror forget it as a member of the pool and mark the drive as a spare rather than as an active pool member? A link to a page would be fine...

I was trying to configure the mirror site for binary packages but couldn't get it as I wanted. The overseas internet connection here in Korea is very bad (about 50KB/s at best and down to 500B/s in actual download speed per connection) while the local connection is very fast (around 8MB/s per...

Since I have quite a few FreeBSD installations on a totally closed network, I'm looking to create a local mirror to update/upgrade these installations. The handbook has this nice article Build your own FreeBSD update server This may or may not be what I need, but I have questions as this...

I built a ZFS 2 disk mirror on a Poweredge 2950 III server about a year ago using a couple Toshiba 2TB drives. Both drives are the same model but sourced from two different local Staples stores, but I'd still bet they are the same batch. I'm going to add another 2 disk mirror vdev to expand the...

Hello everyone How can I change mirror in FreeBSD 10.2? Now I download Gnome with 20-30 KB/s Thanks

Hi, I'm following this tutorial to install and configure ezjail: http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/jails At the step: $ sudo ezjail-admin install -sp the script tries to download ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/10.2-RELEASE/base.txz Is it possible to change the base url...

Hello, I was reading this post for fun - https://blogs.oracle.com/mmusante/entry/howto_replace_a_bad_disk ...and it made me curious to know if one has a simple two-disk zfs mirror set up, and: 1) one disk fails or is removed 2) while running on the one-disk degraded mirror, data errors get...