Yea, installing RedHat from source is the path of maximum resistance. :)

The speed of the download was probably on RedHat's end, not your line. 
ftp.redhat.com is a very slow site, given the popularity of the OS, not 
surprising.

There should be a list of mirrors on RedHat's site somewhere, but one that 
I have had good luck with is mirrors.kernel.org. I think there is a 
/redhat directory, if its not that, then some other name that stands out.

Good Luck.

Bob.

On 2002.01.10 14:18 Charlie Bullen wrote:
> Hello,  I downloaded what I though was RedHat 7.2 from their site
> 
> The 2 files I downloaded were named
> 1. enigma-i386-disc1.iso
> 2. enigma-i386-disc2.iso
> 
> I ran md5sum and compared the results and was suspicious when the key
> generated for disk one matched the key for enigma-SRPMS-disc1.iso which I
> think is the source disk. The Key for disk 2 matched the key for
> enigma-i386-disc2.iso. so I thnk that tha is correct. Any ideas how or
> where I can download a correct disk one as working with source code is
> way beyound my abilities and desire to learn.
> 
> It took me over 24 hours to do  this download on a 256K fractional T1.
> 
> Charlie
> 
> 
> 
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