On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 12:55, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Tuesday 09 September 2003 20:48, Charlie M. wrote: > > Howdy; > > > > Have you a set of ISOs from the last release still? If so you can rename > > them and rsync them with the mirror of your choice to save at least > > some bandwidth. > > > > Greg Meyer did a "mini tutorial" on doing that. A link can be found on > > the cooker TWiki, or at his page: > > > > http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/rsync-mandrakeiso.html > > > > http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MandrakeLinux > > > > If not; and it seems the connections everywhere are dragging along like > > molasses in January, you may want to try the bit torrent. I'm feeding > > it back up from here at roughly 60 kilobytes per second from the set I > > rsynced from sunet.se last night. Md5sums checked, clean downloads. > > > > The "main" torrent page for triggering the download from a browser: > > > > http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2.torrent > > > > or open a terminal in the directory you want the ISOs in and use this: > > > > btdownloadcurses.py --url > > http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2.torrent > > - --saveas MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2 > > > > I hope you can grab them one way or another without too much more > > trouble. > > > > If you use the torrent please leave it running for a while after > > completion to ease the traffic jam on the mirrors? I'll leave mine up > > for probably another 12 hours or so. > > > > Regards; > > Charlie > Charlie, > > You're lucky Anne is just looking away or she'd be asking you to put this up > on the wiki:o)
He's lucky .... since it's on the main MDK twiki he's cleared *grin* James > > Good luck, > HarM > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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