I was disappointed with the bit torrent speed too. I have used it before for other downloads and it was fast. For some reason the Mandrake iso's were slow, and like Tom said the upload for other people was better. I stopped after an hour as I had 36 hours left on one iso (and growing) and did it from an ftp server instead. All 3 iso's in 6 hours.
Tony. -----Original Message----- From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 5:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] XFS Mount On Wednesday August 27 2003 12:13 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > Tom Brinkman wrote: > >On Tuesday August 26 2003 09:54 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > >>Miark wrote: > >>>It's possible the old mount setting in fstab is still active. > >>>Have you checked mtab to make sure the partition isn't already > >>>mounted? > >>> > >>>Miark > >> > >>There are no entries for either drive in mtab. > > > > mtab is generated from fstab, an shouldn't be fooled with > > > > Brant, try puttin your 1st CD in an check the partitions with > > the installers diskdrake. It could be that when you used > > diskdrake the changes were never made, or the partitions were > > never formatted for XFS, an they're still ReiserFS. Probly > > cause the partitions weren't unmounted. Also, with either > > ReiserFS or XFS, Civileme use to suggest a ext3 /boot > > partition. IME, it was/is good advice. > > I did exactly that and that is what I found. I posted my > findings to the expert list last evening. I forgot to post them > here as well. Well, jeez, I had that notion when you first posted the problem, but with the chronology mismatches in the lists, I often see responses before the original problem ;( So I was a little reluctant to jump in, since I was only seein others diagnosis of the problem. No sooner than I hit 'send', I saw a reply from you that you'd figured it out by yourself. Good for you ;) I don't believe it's a diskdrake bug tho. MOF, it's a feature to safeguard still mounted partitions. The only bug would be that diskdrake didn't tell you that nothin was done to disk, since the partitions weren't successfully unmounted to be reformatted. An I believe the developers are already aware of, an workin on that. I've been aware that diskdrake runnin from CD is much better than foolin with it on the booted system. Actually that's the resolution IMO, just always use diskdrake from the 1st CD. Then it's bulletproof ;) > > IIRC, you're runnin cooker. FWIW, RC1 iso's look like they're > >comin to the mirrors today. The beta2 iso's are gone, and so far > >the RC1 md5sum file is posted. So maybe ya want to wait for > > those before fixin your partitions. > > I saw that. > > Warly, from Mandrakesoft, released the bittorrent info for them: > > btdownloadheadless.py --url > http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc1-CD1.i586. >iso.torrent --saveas MandrakeLinux-9.2rc1-CD1.i586.iso Yeah an bittorrent sux for me. That's why I bitched'n moaned on the cooker list to get the iso's posted to ftp. bittsux has been workin on CD2 & 3 for almost 20 hours now, about 50% done. I've never been much of a p2p fan. Now I'm fixin to be an enemy of it. I shortened the url an took a look at the site first. All 3 iso's were there. Soon after I pasted Warly's CL into a term, it dawned on me the if I just changed the 1 to a 2 after both 'CD's, I could start a CD2 'torrent' (what'a misnomer). Same with 3. OTOH, we all need to get along, so I'm letin all three iso's to be uploaded from my connection. Even tho I'm givin far more than gettin. I'm gettin tired of Mandrake's increasing games as releases get closer to final tho. I was only amused when they resorted to false names for iso's, but this bitchtorrent method really sux. At least my complaint (maybe?) got Warly to post the 1st CD. It was d/l'd and burned within the hour. I only need the damn things for backup anyhow, and to take a look at the installer. I'm already past RC1. Be even further if the primary mirror (sunsite) ever straightens out. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com <http://www.bcpsoftware.com/>
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