That's wonderful! I've posted an article about this at PCLinuxOnline.com
(http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3408).
Sridhar (AKA Yama)
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 20:47:24 +0200, Benjamin Pflugmann
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Sorry about cross-posting, but I thought this might be of interest and
> benefit for all and I had no desire to repeat myself.
>
> On Wed 2002-09-25 at 21:27:56 -0300, Damian G wrote:
> >
> > Guys! 9.0 is released.
>
> Really? ;-)
>
> > ( well you probably know this already ;oP )
> >
> > but since the servers are pretty much jammed right now,
> > how about this idea i read about in a comment in PcLinuxOnline:
> >
> > "Any chance someone could put this up on edonkey, or other service
> > which allows multisource transfers?"
> >
> > how about it? i, for one, would pretty much apreciate it!!
> > ( besides i do think it's a great idea ) ;o)
>
> Done for edonkey:
>
> ed2k://|file|Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso|728334336|71c10521b12a2188946a3fc
> fa69cbb0d|
> ed2k://|file|Mandrake90-cd2-ext.i586.iso|733544448|7c613cc7b3b5e321e8977446
> ad5e2d23|
> ed2k://|file|Mandrake90-cd3-i18n.i586.iso|478511104|ec961e029a269b9e04f9475
> 623c3788e|
> ed2k://|file|Mandrake90-md5sums.txt|188|4de4a5e9eafd52812a5816b0c3fe14f0|
> ed2k://|file|Mandrake90-README.txt|2050|4cbd3435f96ca26cb91ab376fc4abcd2|
>
> (each URL should be a single line, i.e. 5 lines all together)
>
> I verified the md5sums to be sure my download was correct. Note that
> the md5sums file above is somewhat redundant, because edonkey has its
> own checksum mechanism. And if you want to test if the files are
> authentic, you will have to use the md5sums from the Mandrake site
> anyhow (if you do not trust my files, well, you do not trust my md5sum
> file either). Anyhow, I added it just for completeness.
>
> Mind, that I have a ADSL line with 128KBit upload, this means only
> about 10KB in average. That is about 3 days for the 3 ISOs. But at
> least you now have the exact files to look for and I hope that this
> will encourage others do the same and publish their downloads.
>
> Since it is the first time that I try to publish files (other than
> simply putting them in my shared folders), I am not sure that I did
> not miss anything. Let me know, if it works - or not.
>
> Bye,
>
> Benjamin.
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