It's just not worth it...

[Jim Herrmann]

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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