[NTLUG:Discuss] Mandrake ISO downloads

[Greg Edwards]

Chris,

I got an email from Mandrake (newsletter) that said they now have a 
<700MB ISO downloadable image.  I didn't save the email but you should 
be able to find mention of it at the errata or Mandrake club sites.


chris at chrisbaker.net wrote:

> Has anyone tried to download and burn Mandrake 9.0?
> 
> I left my PC up at work and downloaded the first two CD's when I 
> left. It took about ten hours, which still isn't bad.
> 
> I was a little concerned when I saw that the size of the first two ISO 
> images were 711 MB and 716 MB. When I tried to burn the first one, 
> this was confirmed. The burn failed.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions? Are all the ISO images for 
> Mandrake like this? This is the first bad burn I have ever had on this 
> CD burner.
> 
> I'm guessing that it simply couldn't handle an image this large. The 
> Red Hat images were in the 600-650 range, and they burned fine.
> 
> Could it be that Mandrake is doing this foil people who want to 
> download and burn Mandrake instead of buying it retail?
> 
> Chris
> 
> Chris
> 
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