Gnoppix "RC"

[Charles Steinkuehler]

Greg Kedrovsky wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 09:29:47AM -0600, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
>> 
>> In this context, almost certainly "Release Candidate", rather than 
>> "Radio Control", "Rambling Congressman" or some other interpretation.
> 
> Ah... I see... Or maybe I could go with "Rotten Crappy" stinkin download
> of two days that left me with a "Rotten Crappy" iso that makes "Rotten
> Crappy" non-bootable cds. And all that after THREE "Rotten Crappy" days
> of downloading the stinkin "Rotten Crappy" thing. 
> 
> All that just because I wanted to see Gnome on the Knoppix desktop
> instead of KDE (Knoppix) and Flux (STD).   :-)
> 
> Time to try another "Rotten Crappy" mirror. 
> 
> Mostly, though... I think it's a problem of my own "Rotten Crappy"
> attitude today.  
> 
> Thanks for the help guys. I guessd it's safe, then, to go with the "RC"
> version (latest) instead of the last "beta" version. I appreciate the
> help. Time to start up another iso download...

If they have any rsync mirrors (Rsync's Cool!), use that to download 
(actually to sync your already downloaded copy) and it should take a lot 
less than 2 days.  Rsync does very well at recognizing the large 
portions of the iso image that were likely downloaded correctly, and 
will only download what needs to be 'fixed'.

If you're lucky a quick rsync and md5sum check will yeild a working CD.

-- 
Charles Steinkuehler
charles at steinkuehler.net