On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Peter Flass wrote:

> John Summerfield wrote:
> >
> > For that matter, I'd be sureprised if you can't install to your
> > mainframe (fireall rules permitting) directly off Red Hat's site. If you
> > use http, and have a caching proxy server in the loop, you will download
> > only what you need, and cache everything for next time.
>
> I had problems connecting to RedHat's FTP site.  It seemed to always be
> bumping up against max users.  I'd hate to have to try and install
> directly from the site. On the other hand, once I did get in the
> downloads ran fairly quickly.  I spent about a day downloading all the
> packages I thought I'd need, set up an FTP server on my PC, and
> installed from there.


There are plenty of mirrors.



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Cheers
John.

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