Hi Wayne, > I am near the end of downloading the three image segments for SXDE 09/07 (or > as Sarah calls it, the "SXDE3"). Since it appears that very few people were > aware of this launch at this time, I am able to maintain very good bandwidth > (450KB/s). However, there were two problems in downloading: > > First, SDM, again, stopped at the point when it was ready to download image > segment "b". I don't know why this is so. Perhaps next time I will try to > move segment b to the top of the download list to see if that helps. This > may not seem to be terribly inconvenient, but it breaks what otherwise would > have been an entirely automatic process. I was really looking forward to > installing the supposedly wonderful SXDE3 when I rushed home from a Sunday > evening event, but, instead, I had to restart and helplessly watch the > downloading process. (Can the someone who has power to control the download > process be a little bit more considerate?) > > Well.. I will forward this on to someone who might be able to answer this, or at least take a look.
> Second, SDM now automatically extracts the zipped images. At the finish of > the download process, what we have are three unzipped images (plus a md5sum > file). Unfortunately, the checksum file contains the md5sum data for only > zipped files. Each of the three image segments contains over 1 GB byte of > data, and I am really puzzled why we have to be so stingy about saving a > couple hundred "bytes"? > > I am not sure why this is done. I will check and get back to you. Regards, sarah **** > I am not going the zip those unzipped files just to do the checksum. If > things screw up, shame on me. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss > >
