On Thu 29 May 2008 22:09:18 NZST +1200, Zane Gilmore wrote: > Are you telling me that the SLES is less convenient than the OpenSuse?
I don't find an overseas repo which may or may not be accessible (so Xtra willing) more convenient than a DVD in my hand, which also has a significantly higher bandwidth. Still better is the ISO on disk... All assuming the box is at my foot, if the box is $INTERNET the bottlenecks change of course. > Just for the record, could you tell me the url for the OpenSuse download.opensuse.org, which contains metadata and otherwise redirects to a mirror near you depending on your IP. Not a bad idea, but is sometimes less than ideal for Kiwis when the closest mirror goes like treacle. Also keep the redirector in mind for when you're observing strange behaviour - some mirrors around Oceania are not always properly synced, leading to an inconsistent repo being seen (but I haven't heard this recently, the checks to prevent this have probably become better). > It turned out that I could use my local DVD drive after all :-) > We're using VMWare and there is this thing where you can mount the local > drive on the server (ahem)... but it's still irritating! Yeah the vmware click-to-connect-to-real-drive is hugely better than nothing. dd will deal with the remaining irritation. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
