On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Sjoerd Mullender <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2011-09-08 23:22, Kévin Raymond wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Sjoerd Mullender <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I'm not sure this is the right place to report this, but here goes. > >> > >> When I try to download any of the LXDE or XFCE spins of Fedora 15, from > >> http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options, the URI points to > >> > http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/spins/linux/releases/15/Spins/. > .. > >> All these get redirected (for me, anyway) to > >> > http://archive.nl.eu.kernel.org/fedora-alt/spins/linux/releases/15/Spins/. > .. > >> However, archive.nl.eu.kernel.org is currently not resolvable. After > a > >> 1 minute timeout the "host" program tells me: > >> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached > >> > >> It is not easy to find an alternative direct download link. > >> > >> -- > >> Sjoerd Mullender > > > > Hi, > > > > In case of the mirror you get is unreachable, you can choose one there: > > http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/15/ > > I know that page, but thanks anyway. However, you can't find spins > there, or at least, they are not indicated. > > > > > Here is one mirror which has all spins: > > > http://ftp.byfly.by/pub/fedoraproject.org/alt/spins/linux/releases/15/Spins/ > > Thanks, that helps. > > The point of my message was two-fold. > > A server that fedoraproject.org points to doesn't work. Perhaps you can > do something about it? (Wake up the responsible person, or make the > website point somewhere else?) > > It is hard to find an alternative for downloading a spin (if you can't > or don't want to use a torrent). It's easy to find mirrors (the page > you referred to), but that page doesn't indicate whether the mirror has > spins available. > > > -- > Sjoerd Mullender > > > -- > websites mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/websites > Sjoerd, You should be able to find alternate version of spins at https://spins.fedoraproject.org/. Sijis
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