[Mageia-discuss] Suggestions for the ISO
Renaud MICHEL
r.h.michel+mageia at gmail.com
Sun Oct 31 09:40:11 CET 2010
On dimanche 31 octobre 2010 at 02:12, Graham Lauder wrote :
> CD or DVD, either is too big to download on my dialup. a 700meg cd would
> take a week to download considering that I have to keep phone line free
> during the day and early evening.(that's of course as long as the server
> supports resuming and the download doesn't break, which of course you
> don't find out until the end, then you have to start all over. :/
Just a side note regarding this problem.
Some mirrors provide rsync access, so with the --partial option you can
continue a download and rsync make sure all parts of the file are correct.
For example at distrib-coffee
rsync://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/mandrivalinux/official/iso/
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Renaud Michel
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