RE: [newbie] 9.0: let's help with the bandwidth? :o)
I downloaded from one of the mandrake mirrors late Friday night. 2.5 hours later, they were freshly burned to cd and ready to roll... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of shane Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 10:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 9.0: let's help with the bandwidth? :o) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 30 September 2002 7:42 pm, Henry Oliver did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I guess that I should count myself very lucky. After two days of not being able to connect to a d/l server I went to google and entered 'Mandrake Mirrors'. The third one I tried worked and it took me 7 hours to download all three iso's of Mdk 9.0. Md5sums checked and I burned them. This is my first d/l with dsl and I am quite pleased with it. try joiniung the mandrakeclub. first day, late in the afternoon, used the club mirror list, got all 3 in just over 4 hours. :-) - -- When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. - John Muir shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9mREKBwq+ZwvIN/oRAkKQAJ48fkAxHR0UuwpjDeHESQdYz2NdgwCdFfrG HS2tS07IAD9JNRdHpF9fOik= =15P+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.0: let's help with the bandwidth? :o)
Another idea, implemented. The broadband connection at home is a bit slow: it would take 18 hours to upload the three ISOs. _But_ I've put them on my company's internal network well, the good part of multi-source download is that you can get faster and faster as more people get the same file -- with edonkey you start sharing chunks of the files even if you just started downloading...-- and since several people already have the isos, it's not such a bad start point. however i see your point. anyway i've already looked for Mandrake con edonkey to see what comes up and found out there's a lot of people sharing Mandrake 8.1 and 8.2 ! (with permission) and advertised their presence on the intranet. That potentially soaks up 11,000 users directly, who can download at about 28MB/sec, and goodness knows how many others indirectly (pass the CDs). sounds good! I also note that the Mandrake Linux Web site is extremely close to being slashdotted - it took about 2 minutes to load the front page. Alastair yup. the word spread pretty fast. looks good, too ;o) this is why i won't even try to download from the official mirrors at least until next week. (i remember rushing to get Mdk 8.2 as soon as i saw a post in here: 8.2 is out, go get it and it actually took me 4 days to get the three discs..) Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: 9.0 on edonkey (was: Re: [newbie] 9.0: let's help with the bandwidth? :o)
That's wonderful! I've posted an article about this at PCLinuxOnline.com (http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=3408). Sridhar (AKA Yama) On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 20:47:24 +0200, Benjamin Pflugmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. Sorry about cross-posting, but I thought this might be of interest and benefit for all and I had no desire to repeat myself. On Wed 2002-09-25 at 21:27:56 -0300, Damian G wrote: Guys! 9.0 is released. Really? ;-) ( well you probably know this already ;oP ) but since the servers are pretty much jammed right now, how about this idea i read about in a comment in PcLinuxOnline: Any chance someone could put this up on edonkey, or other service which allows multisource transfers? how about it? i, for one, would pretty much apreciate it!! ( besides i do think it's a great idea ) ;o) Done for edonkey: ed2k://|file|Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso|728334336|71c10521b12a2188946a3fc fa69cbb0d| ed2k://|file|Mandrake90-cd2-ext.i586.iso|73358|7c613cc7b3b5e321e8977446 ad5e2d23| ed2k://|file|Mandrake90-cd3-i18n.i586.iso|478511104|ec961e029a269b9e04f9475 623c3788e| ed2k://|file|Mandrake90-md5sums.txt|188|4de4a5e9eafd52812a5816b0c3fe14f0| ed2k://|file|Mandrake90-README.txt|2050|4cbd3435f96ca26cb91ab376fc4abcd2| (each URL should be a single line, i.e. 5 lines all together) I verified the md5sums to be sure my download was correct. Note that the md5sums file above is somewhat redundant, because edonkey has its own checksum mechanism. And if you want to test if the files are authentic, you will have to use the md5sums from the Mandrake site anyhow (if you do not trust my files, well, you do not trust my md5sum file either). Anyhow, I added it just for completeness. Mind, that I have a ADSL line with 128KBit upload, this means only about 10KB in average. That is about 3 days for the 3 ISOs. But at least you now have the exact files to look for and I hope that this will encourage others do the same and publish their downloads. Since it is the first time that I try to publish files (other than simply putting them in my shared folders), I am not sure that I did not miss anything. Let me know, if it works - or not. Bye, Benjamin. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Microsoft? Is that a kind of a toilet paper? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 9.0: let's help with the bandwidth? :o)
Guys! 9.0 is released. ( well you probably know this already ;oP ) but since the servers are pretty much jammed right now, how about this idea i read about in a comment in PcLinuxOnline: Any chance someone could put this up on edonkey, or other service which allows multisource transfers? how about it? i, for one, would pretty much apreciate it!! ( besides i do think it's a great idea ) ;o) thanks! Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
