On 12/19/08 3:01 AM, "Alex Fisher" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> [sorry keep sending this to the wrong address]
>
> :) That happens - I keep sending *from* the wrong address :(
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> the extended ftp mirrors (actually none of the mirrors) are not listed on
>> the OOo web site, from what I last saw.
>
> Bill gave you a URL, but perhaps a word of explanation.
Sorry about that Jim and thanks for the explanation Alex ;-)
>...The Extended mirrors
> are no longer in a separate listing. If you look at teh list of mirrors, you
> will notice that the last column of the table has a series of letters. The
> mirrors which include the letter E in that column are the extended mirrors.
>
> Actually, if I knew where you were geographically I'd send you a recommended
> URL :)
>
>> I find torrents to be usually
>> slow, so I prefer FTP. My FTP client (filezilla) does a fine job of
>> downloading large files.
>
> I used to find that myself. However, I use Azureus for BT these days, and find
> it to be as fast as FTP. A lot depends on the client, and your configuration.
> I've found Azureus to have the best interface for tweaking the settings.
>>
>> downloading large files only becomes a problem on a browser if it gets
>> within a few packets of 2GiB in size. then it either gets weird behavior
>> (in the case of IE, where it won't download: "HTTP header error", or in the
>> case of FF, where it gets truncated). Linux x64 FF I am told does not have
>> this problem. I first learned about this from the OpenSUSE web site.
>
> Never run across it myself, but then I don't usually download via a web
> browser (other than Opera, and then only occasionally. I do remember that IE6
> had serious problems though (but who in their right mind would voluntarily
> use IE6 for anything other than testing web pages?).
>>
>> I also learned that you cannot make ISO's larger than 4GiB with mkisofs
>
> For any ISO for any DVD you should be using growisofs and not mkisofs. I(f you
> have good software it should automatically use that, provided it's
> installed - if not then grab a copy and install it. Make sure you burning
> software can find it
>
>> unless [?you are using an alpha version and?] you are using the -iso-level
>> 3 option. I discovered that the windows program
>> http://sf.net/projects/cdrtfe contains mkisofs and cdrecord for windows and
>> it is free and it has a decent GUI.
>
> As I mentioned above, try to find something which uses growisofs....
>>
>>
>>
>> Jim Michaels
>> [email protected]
>> http://JesusnJim.com
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