Excuse me, that was RH's Psyche that I had trouble downloading.  I have
MDK RC2, and am burning the CDs.  I hope to get it installed this
weekend.  I'll let you know how it goes.

Peace,
Jim

On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 22:54, Jim Herrmann wrote:
> At this very moment, I'm downloading Mandrake Linux 9.1 RC2 at 234Kb/s. 
> I don't know what you're talking about.  I had a hell of a time finding
> a mirror from which I could download a copy of Phoebe.  Red Hat mirrors
> are at least as bad, if not worse than Mandrake's.  Try this:
> ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/Mandrake-iso/i586
> To get RC2.  Wait until I'm done though. ;-)  Another 14 minutes for
> 200Mb.  :-)
> 
> For Mandrake updates, I use the server in Utah.  I've always had good
> luck with it.
> 
> HTH,
> Jim
> 
> On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 21:49, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> > Last time Mandrake updated, I got so frustrated trying to download the ISO's I 
> > ordered them from cheapbytes.
> > 
> > Now I'm trying to download their RC's for 9.1, and it's the same deal.  Half of 
> > the RC1 mirrors are off the RC2 list, and the best one I found yesterday was 
> > less than 30CPS; the transfers are incomplete and useless.
> > 
> > As bad as this is, it's better than trying to update an installation with their 
> > update mirrors.
> > 
> > I know it's not their fault, but it's just not worth the struggle any more.  
> > RedHat it is then.
> > 
> > Comments on the availability of Debian, SuSE, Slackware, and gentoo mirrors are 
> > invited.
> > 
> > 
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