[ale] OOPS: Debian mirror

James P Kinney jkinney at emory.edu
Mon Sep 7 17:49:40 EDT 1998


The absolute **Easiest** way to get any Linux distribution is to spend a
fw bucks on the Cd. www.lsl.com has $2 distributions. Beats the hell out
of a 42 hour download!!

Jim Kinney		jkinney at emory.edu
Lab Coordinator		404-727-4734
Physics Department
Emory University

On Fri, 4 Sep 1998 vaidhy at wwdg.com wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Thanks for the responses..but the question I asked was for the following reasons..
> 
> 1. Downloading the CDs take around 42 hours for 1 CD.. But my modem is shared.. That makes it impossible..
> 
> 2. I am just playing around with my computers and need to reinstall things very often..
> 
> So can I bring my computer to GATech and use the ethernet connection to mirror off the debian once?Then I can do the incremental mirrors. 
> 
> OR if someone has a mirror, I can take my harddisk out there and copy the mirror?
> 
> So is there anyone who has that?
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> Vaidhy
> 
> 
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