Subject: RE: What's with the ISO?
From: Pete Peters (ppeters914@home.com)
Date: Mon Nov 05 2001 - 09:47:13 MST
C'mon people. Doesn't anyone remember the download nightmare when YDL
2.0 released? Heck, even if I could connect to a server, I was lucky to
get a list. IIRC, other than for a few lucky individuals, it was over
two weeks before the rank and file could could reasonably download the
iso.
And if the image is less than 600 megs, well, gee, a bad and/or
imcomplete download? Do you think? Duh...
Pete
Sarcasm in Seattle
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Burcaw [mailto:dburcaw@terrasoftsolutions.com]
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 7:33 PM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Subject: Re: What's with the ISO?
Mirroring is still in progress...
some mirrors do have the full thing
which is roughly 640 megs. See ftp.ibilio.org
and psu.edu, for instance. We're eagerly
getting our other mirrors synced.
On Friday 02 November 2001 10:23, you wrote:
> At 8:57 PM -0800 11/2/01, Ronald Hale-Evans wrote:
>
> [snip tale of woe]
>
> >And another thing: why is the disk image only 18 megs long? The 2.0
> >image was almost 700 megs, as you would expect. Have compression
> >techniques _really_ gotten that good in the past few months, or did
> >somebody screw up somewhere?
>
> Clearly the image got truncated somewhere along the line. I wouldn't
> even bother trying to burn it if it's only 18 megs.
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