The problem with this is bandwidth. I have disk space to spare and I download most of this stuff anyways but Telus is "limiting" me to 11GB / mo of which 4GB is upstream. Obviously this would be a problem trasferring 700M files to dozens of people. Unless anyone knows of any DSL providers that give unlimited BW this is a killer. (As it is I am easily using the 4GB / mo on the other stuff running on this machine)
Jeff On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 11:11:58AM -0600, Kevin Anderson wrote: > How feesable is it to set up an FTP on the CLUG site so that once ONE of us > DL's something, the rest can grab a copy from them? IE: If I get RH8 on > Monday, I can immediately UL it to ftp.clug.com (or whatever), and then if > other members wanted a copy, they could DL as appropriate. As a sort of > CLUG-only mirror, sort of. > > What are the limitations to such a proposal. I'm sure Disk Space, but that > isn't insurmountable. We don't really want to mirror old versions, so lets > just say that as a policy, we'll mirror the 2 most recient versions of > versions of whatever (Gentoo, RH, Debian, Mandrake, Suse, Smoothwall, and > maybe two or 3 more.) What's our Bandwidth limitation and.or Bandwidth > useage look like? Can we do this? > > Even if we held 2 copies of 10 Distros, each averaging 3 Gigs, we'd end up > with 60 Gigs of Disk Space. Which isn't much. That's what a 5-10 dollar > donation from each of the active members on this mailing list? We'd clearly > all benefit. > > Is this an idea worth pursuing? > > Kev. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jesse Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 9:12 AM > Subject: Re: (clug-talk) 9 dot o > > > > Thanks for the offer, but I was able to download it from 3 mirrors last > night. > > Now I am looking forward to getting home from work and burning those babys > on CD. > > > > Jesse > > > > Quoting Trevor Lauder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > I'm downloading Mandrake 9.0 as I type this email actually. If you want > I > > > can setup a ftp account for you on my server when I get it downloaded > > > (Should be done in 5 hours or so). If not, I can always burn you a > > > copy... let me know. The mirror I always use for most of my linux > distro > > > downloads is ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch I usually get 300+ K/s from > > > them but since Mandrake came out I'm only getting 50 K/s > > > > > > Later, > > > > > > Trevor > > > > > > > Thanks everyone, I feel pretty confident about installing 9.0 now. The > > > > only thing left is to get it. Does anyone know of any working mirrors? > > > > > > > > Jesse > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 11:06, S?bastien Taylor wrote: > > > >> I'm pretty sure mandrake let's you flag a partition so that it > > > >> doesn't format it..at least it should have it, every other os has > it. > > > >> I would just stick the cd in, and boot it up, tell it to format the > > > >> old partitions but leave /home as is. > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> Jesse Kline a ?crit: > > > >> > Ya, I already have a seperate /home partition. So If I were to just > > > >> wipe out my > > > >> > other partitions, and create new ones with the MDK installer, and > > > >> do a full > > > >> > install, will it leave my /home partition alone? I just don't want > > > >> to see that formatting all partitions window :-). > > > >> > > > > >> > Jesse > > > >> > > > > >> > Quoting S?bastien Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> >>That could work, except for the fact that, and I quote "No, I do > > > >> have a separate /home partition." ;-) Problem solved! > > > >> >> > > > >> >> > > > >> >>Dan Graham a ?crit: > > > >> >> > > > >> >>>Hi Jesse, > > > >> >>> > > > >> >>>1. Delete all but your /home dir. > > > >> >>>2. Resize what is left with Mandrake's partition resizing tool > > > >> (hacked parted) > > > >> >>>3. Name this /home > > > >> >>>4. Create the rest of your partitions as per. > > > >> >>>5. Do a full install as required. > > > >> >>> > > > >> >>>I just did this with RC3 9.0 for my buddy Howard who had a ton of > > > >> stuff on one big / partiton. > > > >> >>>No problem. > > > >> >>> > > > >> >>>Cya, Dan > > > >> >>> > > > >> >>> > > > >> >>> > > > >> >>>-----Original Message----- > > > >> >>>From: S?bastien Taylor > > > >> >>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >> >>>Sent: 9/25/02 7:04 PM > > > >> >>>Subject: Re: (clug-talk) 9 dot o > > > >> >>> > > > >> >>>Oh, good, that's easy, you just tell it what partition you want to > > > >> use as home, and then turn off the format option. Not sure > > > >> _exactly_ how to do that, I don't use Mandrake, but pretty much > > > >> every installer let's you do that. The option might also be > > > >> called "Mount previously formated partition" something like that is > > > >> what you want...it should be pretty obvious. > > > >> >>> > > > >> >>>Make sure you still back up what you can't afford to loose!! > > > >> >>> > > > >> >>> > > > >> >>>Le Mercredi, 25 sept 2002, ? 18:20 Canada/Mountain, Jesse Kline a > > > >> ?crit : > > > >> >>> > > > >> >>> > No, I do have a separate /home partition. What I want to do is > > > >> reinstall > > > >> >>> > the system (on the root partition) without touching my /home > > > >> partition (which does exist). I'm sure that I read somewhere > > > >> that you can do > > > >> >>>this > > > >> >>> > with Mandrake, I'm just wondering how? > > > >> >>> > > > > >> >>> > Jesse > > > >> >>> > > > > >> >>> > On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 18:18, S?bastien Taylor wrote: > > > >> >>> >> You mean you didn't put your /home on it's own partition?? > > > >> Shame on you > > > >> >>> >> ;-) If you didn't you should back it up and do it this time, > > > >> or else you can just delete everything else then install on the > > > >> sorta-clean drive. Or, finally, you could just try to > > > >> upgrade... > > > >> >>> >> > > > >> >>> >> > > > >> >>> >> Le Mercredi, 25 sept 2002, ? 18:00 Canada/Mountain, Jesse > Kline > > > >> a ?crit > > > >> >>> >> : > > > >> >>> >> > > > >> >>> >>> I really want to have the latest and greatest, but I'm trying > > > >> to figure > > > >> >>> >>> out the best way to go about this. I know that upgrades are > > > >> not always > > > >> >>> >>> the best solution, but I have large video files on my /home > > > >> >>>partition > > > >> >>> >>> that aren't economical to backup on CD. Is there a way to get > > > >> Mandrake > > > >> >>> >>> to install over the / partition without touching my /home > > > >> partition? > > > >> >>> > > > >> >>> >>> Or > > > >> >>> >>> is there a way to do a Debian-style upgrade using urpmi? > > > >> >>> >>> > > > >> >>> >>> Thanks, > > > >> >>> >>> > > > >> >>> >>> Jesse > > > >> >>> >>> > > > >> >>> >>> On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 16:32, Dan Graham wrote: > > > >> >>> >>>> > > > >> >>> >>>> Hi all, > > > >> >>> >>>> > > > >> >>> >>>> The new Mandrake 9.0 "Dolphin" has been released. > > > >> >>> >>>> > > > >> >>> >>>> cya > > > >> >>> >>> > > > >> >>> >>> <signature.asc> > > > >> >>> > > > > >> >>> > <signature.asc> > > > >> >>> > > > >> >> > > > >> >> > > > >> >> > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
