Re: [CentOS] the ongoing wait for centos 5.4

2009-10-19 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>If I use BitTorrent to download the DVD image from >tracker.centos.org, I assume the file has to be complete >or could it still be missing something? I fetched my dvd's yesterday via bittorrent perfectly fine... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] the ongoing wait for centos 5.4

2009-10-19 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Hi, I could download from the following torrents: http://sunsite.rediris.es/mirror/CentOS/5.4/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-DVD.torrent http://sunsite.rediris.es/mirror/CentOS/5.4/isos/i386/CentOS-5.4-i386-bin-DVD.torrent The download was very quick, maybe because I'm now on business trip in

Re: [CentOS] the ongoing wait for centos 5.4

2009-10-18 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 02:06:58PM +0800, CentOS List wrote: > > If you had try harder and try them all, you should be able to find these > mirrors with 5.4 in them. > > http://centos.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/centos/5.4/ > http://mirror.highspeedweb.net/CentOS/5.4/ > http://mirror.sanctuaryh

Re: [CentOS] the ongoing wait for centos 5.4

2009-10-18 Thread CentOS List
> i've checked a couple dozen random mirrors, and have yet to find > it. i'm almost tempted to ask, "any idea on when 5.4 will be > available?", but i just *know* that would get me in trouble. If you had try harder and try them all, you should be able to find these mirrors with 5.4 in them. htt

Re: [CentOS] the ongoing wait for centos 5.4

2009-10-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sun, 18 Oct 2009, Miguel Medalha wrote: > > > I am burning the DVD ISO image to disk right now. It is available > > from some mirrors. > > i've checked a couple dozen random mirrors, and have yet to find > it. i'm almost tempted to ask, "any idea

Re: [CentOS] the ongoing wait for centos 5.4

2009-10-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 18 Oct 2009, Miguel Medalha wrote: > I am burning the DVD ISO image to disk right now. It is available > from some mirrors. i've checked a couple dozen random mirrors, and have yet to find it. i'm almost tempted to ask, "any idea on when 5.4 will be available?", but i just *know* that w

Re: [CentOS] the ongoing wait for centos 5.4

2009-10-18 Thread Neil Aggarwal
>> I am burning the DVD ISO image to disk right now. It is available from >> some mirrors. >which are mostly incomplete... maybe some isos are ok but even the centos.org >machines are not yet in sync... >I would strongly suggest that you wait for the actual announcements, but ymmv. This leads me

Re: [CentOS] the ongoing wait for centos 5.4

2009-10-18 Thread Ian Murray
Irrespective of the discussions about the release procedure and visibility, etc, I'd like to thank everyone that put effort into making the CentOS 5.4 release happen.. I know I won't be alone in wishing to express thanks. ___ CentOS mailing l

Re: [CentOS] the ongoing wait for centos 5.4

2009-10-18 Thread Miguel Medalha
> I would strongly suggest that you wait for the actual announcements, but ymmv. > I noticed that the mirrors that don't have the images complete don't even allow you to enter the 5.4 directory. This particular one does and the checksum files check OK.

Re: [CentOS] the ongoing wait for centos 5.4

2009-10-18 Thread Miguel Medalha
The checksum files are also there. SHA and MD5. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] the ongoing wait for centos 5.4

2009-10-18 Thread Tru Huynh
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 09:48:46PM +0100, Miguel Medalha wrote: > I am burning the DVD ISO image to disk right now. It is available from > some mirrors. which are mostly incomplete... maybe some isos are ok but even the centos.org machines are not yet in sync... I would strongly suggest that yo

Re: [CentOS] the ongoing wait for centos 5.4

2009-10-18 Thread Miguel Medalha
I am burning the DVD ISO image to disk right now. It is available from some mirrors. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] the ongoing wait for centos 5.4

2009-10-18 Thread Drew
>> "Windows 7 coming soon!!!" >> no date.  no reason.  Just churn. > > Windows 7 will be out on the 22nd Oct 2009. Your local computer > Shop did not try hard enough to find this out? I think the store's aim was to generate a "Cool. When?" response from clients to draw them into the store so a sal

Re: [CentOS] the ongoing wait for centos 5.4

2009-10-18 Thread CentOS List
>> >> at the risk of picking at that scab a bit longer, i'm going to toss >> out a comment regarding people still waiting for the public >> availability of centos 5.4. >> >> here: >> >> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-October/083743.html >> >About ten minutes after your email, I got

Re: [CentOS] the ongoing wait for centos 5.4

2009-10-18 Thread Jim Wildman
On Sun, 18 Oct 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > at the risk of picking at that scab a bit longer, i'm going to toss > out a comment regarding people still waiting for the public > availability of centos 5.4. > > here: > > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-October/083743.html About

Re: [CentOS] the ongoing wait for centos 5.4

2009-10-18 Thread Ian Murray
> Here's the way I'm going to take care of the "problem." Figure eight > weeks out for CentOS from the time Red Hat is released. If it gets > done quicker than that, I've got a bonus.! ...and ignore any "announcements" in the meantime, as they may be red-herrings? Take a "I'll believe it when I

Re: [CentOS] the ongoing wait for centos 5.4

2009-10-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
amusingly, only 41 minutes ago, this from centos twitter: "we ran into a few issues on internal centos.org machines - all resolved now :) we should start seeding to external mirrors shortly" and *that's* what i was talking about -- we just want to be kept informed. thanks. rday --

Re: [CentOS] the ongoing wait for centos 5.4

2009-10-18 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 2:54 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >  again, whether people are being paid to do any of this work is not > relevant.  it's important, from the perspective of reputation, that > everyone see the centos project as being efficiently and competently > run, and making what *appea

[CentOS] the ongoing wait for centos 5.4

2009-10-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
at the risk of picking at that scab a bit longer, i'm going to toss out a comment regarding people still waiting for the public availability of centos 5.4. here: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-October/083743.html we read: "The last status (from twitter) is 2 days old with th