Ah... Running a download mirror internally helps a lot. I realise there's a lot of compiling to do, but pulling the source through a 100MB internal network is a whole lot faster than using even 512K cable, never mind a modem.
Yep!
Half the time was pulling it from ibiblio (SLOOOW!)
I'm getting a kernel panic... but I think the problem could be WAAAAY back in the process (the passwd command didn't work for a start). Still, it was a learning experience, which I will get right next time round... unfortunately I'm moving and will have no net access for a while.... fortunately, my new net access will be 512kbps cable! ;)
And yes, linuxmail fscks linewrap.
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 09:21:59PM +0000, Ricardo Campos wrote:
Half the time was pulling it from ibiblio (SLOOOW!)
Strange I found it to be fast.. okay.. from work. But there is a UK mirror but I lost the URL..
I'm getting a kernel panic... but I think the problem could be WAAAAY back in the process (the passwd command didn't work for a start). Still, it was a learning experience, which I will get right next time round... unfortunately I'm moving and will have no net access for a while.... fortunately, my new net access will be 512kbps cable! ;)
You should be okay with the fatass cable ;)
And yes, linuxmail fscks linewrap.
BAD LINUXMAIL.
Ricardo Campos wrote:
Ah... Running a download mirror internally helps a lot. I realise there's a lot of compiling to do, but pulling the source through a 100MB internal network is a whole lot faster than using even 512K cable, never mind a modem.
Yep!
Half the time was pulling it from ibiblio (SLOOOW!)
Yeah. We also mirror ibiblio so we can control what goes on the boxes. We do that by defining what goes in the portage tree, and then updating from the /distfiles mirror internally. It works well.
I'm getting a kernel panic... but I think the problem
9 times out of 10, that's an error in /boot/grub/menu.lst caused by failing to point to the right place for your root partition. If it's a laptop, it's usually a misconfigured kernel.
could be WAAAAY back in the process (the passwd command didn't work for a start). Still, it was a learning experience, which I will get right next time round... unfortunately I'm moving and will have no net access for a while.... fortunately, my new net access will be 512kbps cable! ;)
When you get your 512k cable connection (I have a 512 cable here in my office, and a 2meg line in my server room), be sure to rsync ibiblio. Bear in mind the whole tree is more than 20GB, 90% of which we never use! There are about 2,500 packages now, and growing.
Cheers, Laurie.
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