3 coasters later (was: Mandrake 8.2 Mirror)

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Author: Digital Wokan
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Subject: 3 coasters later (was: Mandrake 8.2 Mirror)
Digital Wokan wrote:
Yep. Either NCFTP or GCombust has failed me badly. I tried burning the
images anyway. Stupid of me not to test the first CD after burning, but
it burned so quickly I decided to knock them all out fast. I suppose
I'll try downloading them to an ext2 partition first and make sure the
md5sums come out okay before moving them to a FAT32.

>
> If I'm the only one with a screwed up copy, I can certainly live with
> that. Ended up redownloading them from a .uk server since all the US
> ones were tied up. Still got different md5sums. I'm using ncftp to
> download them, and they appear to be coming over in binary format (never
> had a problem before). I'm storing them on my FAT32 partition in case I
> didn't get around to burning them before anything pressing comes up and
> forces me to reboot to Windows (like a dire need to play Quake 3 at more
> than 1 FPS).
>
> Tyler Hall wrote:
> >
> > I burned them myself on my windows puter first off, then FTP'd them to my
> > linux box, and then re-tested them by mounting them and they all mounted
> > fine.
> >
> > They *SHOULD* work if you got all of the files correctly.
> >
> > Tyler
> >
> > On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Digital Wokan wrote:
> >
> > > Finally got all 3 of the isos. None of the md5sums matched the ones on
> > > rpmfind.net.
> > >
> > > Tyler Hall wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Greetings!
> > > >
> > > > I've decided to be nice, and share my company's bandwidth *grin*.
> > > >
> > > > The ftp servers have been swamped, but I managed to grab the 3 isos of
> > > > Mandrake 8.2.
> > > >
> > > > They are up on a FTP;
> > > >
> > > > Host: nerdie.org
> > > > User: linux
> > > > Password: linux
> > > >
> > > > I'll keep it up for a few days so everyone can get it. But, please don't
> > > > abuse the bandwidth. Feel free to abuse it as much as you can between
> > > > the houses of 6PM-8AM. The office is open between 8AM-6PM, and therefore
> > > > we need the bandwidth.
> > > >
> > > > It's only a T1. So, go easy!
> > > >
> > > > Tyler