On Wednesday 20 April 2005 20:37, Tim Green wrote:
On 4/20/05, Graham gt@pobox.com wrote:
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 23:42, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
I like SuSE too, but a word of advice.... At the moment the ftp server ftp.suse.com seems a little unreliable, the last few times I have tried to use it, it has unexpectedly gone off-line.
When I looked last night it wasn't taking any more connections, though it did have the grace to say so rather than simply fall over.
How about BitTorrenting the iso images? A good way to get the latest when everyone wants it too.
Tim.
I'm not with you. The CD/DVD images available are a 3.1GB DVD and a 64MB boot CD. Unless you have lots of machines to install it's simplest to use the boot CD to install direct from the FTP server and from other sources such as PackMan. My favourite is the UK Mirror Service, on the list indicated by Wayne. A default build is around 1.5GB, only half the DVD.
The whole of SuSE 9.2 can be obtained by a single wget and placed on a local NFS or FTP server for installation, but at over 13GB it'll take a good while to download.
Not sure what you meant about BitTorrent - I associate that with peer-peer file sharing, an unnecessarily slow way of getting stuff that's already freely available on fast servers.
-- GT