It's just not worth it...
Jim Herrmann
kclug at ItDepends.com
Fri Mar 7 05:14:17 CST 2003
Excuse me, that was RH's Psyche that I had trouble downloading. I have
MDK RC2, and am burning the CDs. I hope to get it installed this
weekend. I'll let you know how it goes.
Peace,
Jim
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 22:54, Jim Herrmann wrote:
> At this very moment, I'm downloading Mandrake Linux 9.1 RC2 at 234Kb/s.
> I don't know what you're talking about. I had a hell of a time finding
> a mirror from which I could download a copy of Phoebe. Red Hat mirrors
> are at least as bad, if not worse than Mandrake's. Try this:
> ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/Mandrake-iso/i586
> To get RC2. Wait until I'm done though. ;-) Another 14 minutes for
> 200Mb. :-)
>
> For Mandrake updates, I use the server in Utah. I've always had good
> luck with it.
>
> HTH,
> Jim
>
> On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 21:49, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> > Last time Mandrake updated, I got so frustrated trying to download the ISO's I
> > ordered them from cheapbytes.
> >
> > Now I'm trying to download their RC's for 9.1, and it's the same deal. Half of
> > the RC1 mirrors are off the RC2 list, and the best one I found yesterday was
> > less than 30CPS; the transfers are incomplete and useless.
> >
> > As bad as this is, it's better than trying to update an installation with their
> > update mirrors.
> >
> > I know it's not their fault, but it's just not worth the struggle any more.
> > RedHat it is then.
> >
> > Comments on the availability of Debian, SuSE, Slackware, and gentoo mirrors are
> > invited.
> >
> >
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