Slackware ISOs no longer downloadable?

Brian Densmore DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com
Wed Nov 19 16:34:56 CST 2003


ftp://ftp.rtfm.no/pub/slackware/slackware-9.1-iso/slackware-9.1-install-d1.iso

ftp://ftp.rtfm.no/pub/slackware/slackware-9.1-iso/slackware-9.1-install-d2.iso

These are only two of the links on the page. 
Read the page more carefully, there are a dozen direct links on that page
to the isos.

> 
> Sorry, your link just leads me back to all the same archives on the
> www.slackware.org site which no longer have access to 
> Slackware 9.1 (or
> 9.0, or 8.x) ISOs.
> 
> The *mirrors* are the problem, and ftp.slackware.org just got its
> bandwidth allowance cut or something because even the home 
> site no longer
> carries ISOs.  www.LinuxISO.org probably uses a mirror too, 
> because all
> its Slackware ISO links come up "file not found" error.
> 
> Seriously,  if you find an archive (not just a website 
> linking to mirrors
> which have decided to stop carrying ISOs thanks to Patrick 
> Volkerding's
> pathological fascination with BitTorrent) which still has the 
> ISO on it,
> I want to know.
> 
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