[expert] Re: Beta2 to beta3
Well, the second cd quit downloading at 612 megabytes out of 648 possible, and wouldn't resume without losing it all, so I guess I answered my own question. I'll start downloading Beta 3, should finish it in 10 days... :-) -Brandon On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 13:45, Brandon Dorman wrote: Hello, I've been a fan of Red Hat for almost three years, really diving into it in the past 6 months (recompiled the 2.4.17 kernel, got my ide cd burner working, sound card working now, almost got my printer working) but recently have read some stuff that makes Mandrake sound very attractive! So I started to download the beta iso's. This was a few days ago. My campus' network connection has been very slow at times, going from 100KB/S all the way down to 4KB/S. I am about done with CD2 and noticed that Beta3 has been released. Is there a utility like up2date in RH that makes it pretty easy to upgrade once I've gotten it installed? no matter what I'll probably buy the 8.2 boxed set if I like it. But in the meantime I do like stability. :-) Thanks! -Brandon _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Beta2 to beta3
Check out rsync. Resumes downloads plus checks and updates what you already have. Note that you can also change beta 2 into beta 3 using it. It checksums the iso file and only downloads changes. I usually just rsync the whole iso (via a modem!), but there is a rsync script that can just download a subset of the iso cutting the amount of data still further - http://www.ains.net.au/~ronst/rsync/readme.html; - I aim to use this this time around. BillK On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 07:08, Brandon Dorman wrote: Well, the second cd quit downloading at 612 megabytes out of 648 possible, and wouldn't resume without losing it all, so I guess I answered my own question. I'll start downloading Beta 3, should finish it in 10 days... :-) -Brandon On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 13:45, Brandon Dorman wrote: Hello, I've been a fan of Red Hat for almost three years, really diving into it in the past 6 months (recompiled the 2.4.17 kernel, got my ide cd burner working, sound card working now, almost got my printer working) but recently have read some stuff that makes Mandrake sound very attractive! So I started to download the beta iso's. This was a few days ago. My campus' network connection has been very slow at times, going from 100KB/S all the way down to 4KB/S. I am about done with CD2 and noticed that Beta3 has been released. Is there a utility like up2date in RH that makes it pretty easy to upgrade once I've gotten it installed? no matter what I'll probably buy the 8.2 boxed set if I like it. But in the meantime I do like stability. :-) Thanks! -Brandon _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following log describes which actions were taken. Sanitizer (start=1014333450): Part (pos=2419): SanitizeFile (filename=unnamed.txt, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=2): Enforced policy: accept Part (pos=3997): SanitizeFile (filename=message.footer, mimetype=text/plain): Match (rule=default): Enforced policy: defang Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-12 Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-12 Total modifications so far: 1 Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.32 2001/10/11 19:27:15 bre Exp $ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Beta2 to beta3
On Thursday 21 February 2002 17:08, you wrote: Well, the second cd quit downloading at 612 megabytes out of 648 possible, and wouldn't resume without losing it all, so I guess I answered my own question. I'll start downloading Beta 3, should finish it in 10 days... :-) You don't _need_ the second CD, but the differences between Beta 2 (in packages) and Beta 3, would be worth the download. If it where me, I'd just download the first CD of Beta 3, do an install, and if you like it get whatever extra packages you need with 'rpmdrake' and then buy the full 8.2 :) -- Live fast, die young, you're sucking up my bandwidth. -- J.P. Pasnak, CD [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.warpedsystems.sk.ca Kernel version: 2.4.17-18mdk Current Linux uptime: 3 days 5 hours 21 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Beta2 to beta3
Brandon Dorman wrote: Well, the second cd quit downloading at 612 megabytes out of 648 possible, and wouldn't resume without losing it all, so I guess I answered my own question. I'll start downloading Beta 3, should finish it in 10 days... :-) Brandon, Sound like jobs for rsync -- see http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/RsyncingALargeFile. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Beta2 to beta3
Great, thanks. On rsync, I've seen a ton of mention of it on the K12LTSP listserv which I'm also a part of. I'll be doing that. thanks guys, hopefully I'll be e-mailing you from Mandrake soon. :-)(not that I hate RH, just want to try something new and the whole apt-get-like capabilities of Mandrake's RPM installer sound great) -Brandon On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 15:56, J.P. Pasnak wrote: On Thursday 21 February 2002 17:08, you wrote: Well, the second cd quit downloading at 612 megabytes out of 648 possible, and wouldn't resume without losing it all, so I guess I answered my own question. I'll start downloading Beta 3, should finish it in 10 days... :-) You don't _need_ the second CD, but the differences between Beta 2 (in packages) and Beta 3, would be worth the download. If it where me, I'd just download the first CD of Beta 3, do an install, and if you like it get whatever extra packages you need with 'rpmdrake' and then buy the full 8.2 :) -- Live fast, die young, you're sucking up my bandwidth. -- J.P. Pasnak, CD [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.warpedsystems.sk.ca Kernel version: 2.4.17-18mdk Current Linux uptime: 3 days 5 hours 21 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
