FC5 no DVD iso? - hold your horses ?

Giuseppe Castagna Giuseppe.Castagna at ens.fr
Mon Mar 20 14:38:21 UTC 2006


David Timms wrote:
>>> Thanks, it just looked bizarre that in
>>>
>>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/iso/
> 
> psst: ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/iso
> Perhaps since many web browsers don't handle downloads greater than 
> 2.0GB, the release guys might leave it off the html version ? If you can 
> hang five and wait until the mirrors open, and get it from your nearest 
> in country local mirror, it will help worldwide distribution...and speed 
> downloads for all.
> 
> Remember: do not use firefox to download it; it will bomb out at 2G, 
> which is an even bigger waste of bandwidth. (although I have got azureus 
> to resume the download in the past when the torrent tracker is published 
> ;-)
> 

Sure, ten minutes ago I lanched my

  wget 
ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/5/x86_64/iso/FC-5-x86_64-DVD.iso

;-)

---Beppe---




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