On Tuesday 09 September 2003 20:48, Charlie M. wrote: > Howdy; > > Have you a set of ISOs from the last release still? If so you can rename > them and rsync them with the mirror of your choice to save at least > some bandwidth. > > Greg Meyer did a "mini tutorial" on doing that. A link can be found on > the cooker TWiki, or at his page: > > http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/rsync-mandrakeiso.html > > http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MandrakeLinux > > If not; and it seems the connections everywhere are dragging along like > molasses in January, you may want to try the bit torrent. I'm feeding > it back up from here at roughly 60 kilobytes per second from the set I > rsynced from sunet.se last night. Md5sums checked, clean downloads. > > The "main" torrent page for triggering the download from a browser: > > http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2.torrent > > or open a terminal in the directory you want the ISOs in and use this: > > btdownloadcurses.py --url > http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2.torrent > - --saveas MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2 > > I hope you can grab them one way or another without too much more > trouble. > > If you use the torrent please leave it running for a while after > completion to ease the traffic jam on the mirrors? I'll leave mine up > for probably another 12 hours or so. > > Regards; > Charlie Charlie,
You're lucky Anne is just looking away or she'd be asking you to put this up on the wiki:o) Good luck, HarM
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