If you have access to a CD-Recordable I would *REALLY* recommend you
download the Mandrake.iso image file. You can download this one file, open
it in EZCD Creator or some similar program and burn you a full
Linux-Mandrake CD. I downloaded the file overnight and burned the cd the
next day and it was perfect. The image file is a complete CD image,
bootable and everything.
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Aldrich
Sent: Friday, August 13, 1999 10:32 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Trouble ftp'ing Mandrake 6.0
On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, you wrote:
> Howdy all,
>
> I was just trying to download the latest Mandrake (6.0) from one of
> the FTP mirrors (500+ Meggers, but I figure I might as well put my new
> DSL to work). Everything's great, except my FTP programs seem to be
> choking on some directories. There are a whole bunch of directories in
> the /Mandrake/instimage/lib directory (and possibly elsewhere), that
> my FTP programs (both WS_FTP and CuteFTP) are failing to open, giving
> "Not a Directory" errors. The directories have names like
> ld-linux.so.2, libc.so.6, and so forth. The only thing I can think is
> that the multiple dots in the file names are confusing my FTP
> programs, but I can't really see whay that would happen.
>
> I imagine I'me just doing (or overlooking) something stupid, but what?
> (Besides stubbornly refusing to get the CDs, that is).
>
Have ya tried doing the FTP from within Linux? ;-)
Seriously, Windows programs do NOT appreciate the multiple
dots in the file/directory names!
< John May - Computer Technician >
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