From: stern@amath.washington.edu (L.G. "Ted" Stern) Subject: Re: Beginner's question Date: 25 Feb 1993 17:23:04 GMT
In article <f2sQ03LUcaQx00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>, rtan@.uts.amdahl.com (Rick Tan) writes:
|> I'm just about to start the install of LINUX SLS ftped from sunsite.unc.edu.
|> My questions:
|>
|> a) The software is at version level 99 patchlevel 2. Where can I get
|> v99pl6 that everybody is talking about?
|>
|> b) What would be a good root/swap partition combination using a 70MB HD?
|>
|> Thanks for any help.
|>
|> Rick
|>
In general, it is a good idea to get a recursive directory listing from
each of the main sites (e.g., tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux and
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux) via anonymous ftp, and then do searches for likely
combinations on those listings. For example,
% ftp sunsite.unc.edu
.... (signing in junk)
ftp> cd /pub/Linux
ftp> ls -lR sunsite.ls-lR # This downloads the listing to the local
# file sunsite.ls-lR
ftp> quit
Then go into Emacs, or any editor that can do case-insensitive searches,
and look around!
I know for certain that 99p6 is on tsx-11, actually. Also, there are ls-lR
and ls-ltR files in tsx-11:/pub/linux that are created fresh daily, so at that
site you don't have to do it manually as above. Another nice thing about tsx-11
is that if you do
ftp> cd /pub/linux
ftp> bin # Need to do this to make the transfer binary
ftp> get ls-lR.Z
, it will automatically send you the compressed version of the file, thus saving
bandwidth on transmission!
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