[NTLUG:Discuss] Locally available Linux CD-Rs

[Tom Woody]

Take an hour or so and do a traceroute to the various mirror
sites...you will find the best site for your location based on speed,
and number of hops.


On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 12:44:07 -0500
"Joe Torma" <joe.torma at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Semi off topic, but have been connected to RH site for 2 days trying
> to get the ISO's for 8.0 & can't get a rate over 8.19 Kbps in spite of
> the fact that I have DSL.  Where is a fast DL site for the ISO's
> please.  Mirrors seemed even slower last night...
> 
> Thanks,
> Joe
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org]On
> Behalf Of Kelledin
> Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 5:24 PM
> To: discuss at ntlug.org
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Locally available Linux CD-Rs
> 
> 
> On Saturday 12 October 2002 04:56 pm, Chris Cox wrote:
> > I can supply a copy of SuSE 8.0 (and 8.1 when it arrives).
> >
> > We've kind of fallen down in this area of late.  I think it
> > would be wise for every member of the LIP to have a
> > "collection" of CD's so that we don't get caught not having a
> > distribution. I'm not saying we have to have EVERY
> > distribution, but it would certainly be nice to have a few on
> > hand so folks could choose (for those that don't bring a
> > distribution with them).
> >
> > Indeed.. this is something to think about (those with
> > high speed replicating capabilities may want to contribute
> > in this area).
> 
> So far I've burned full binary sets of Debian 3.0r0, Redhat 8.0,
> Mandrake 9.0, and Slackware 8.1.  I don't really bother with
> source CDs, since these aren't generally used in the distro
> setup (except with gentoo/sorcerer, of course, but that's a
> whole different kettle of fish).  I can provide other
> distros/versions/CDs upon request, as long as no one wants me to
> do something illegal ;).
> 
> Although I can burn at 12x, I generally burn distro CDs at 4x for
> compatibility with older CD-ROM drives (one of which is in my
> soon-to-be NIS/Kerberos/DNS slave).
> 
> --
> Kelledin
> "If a server crashes in a server farm and no one pings it, does
> it still cost four figures to fix?"
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Tom 

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