Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3637 mails)

["Purple Shirt" <purpleshirt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

well my friend in Sydney got a bpa cable modem. I know there is quite a few 
linux users on the bpa networks. I also know bpa provides internally such 
software as netscape and other crap downloads for windows users. I don't 
know why linux bpa users haven't requested that Bigpond creates mirrors 
inside their network for distros they use. It only takes 2 harddrives(~160 
gig) and a machine. It keeps their Linux users from downloading via ftp 
again and again and again at the hefty prices bigpond says it costs them.

Frankly I don't understand these stupid companies. They put in their service 
agreements that you can't run a server or a bot(? rsync) which automatically 
downloads stuff. But they won't provide an interal mirror?

well I downloaded the suse ftp tree over bpa modem and they haven't 
complained about the 6 gig or so (probably was more like 9 =). fsck 'em. 
Besides I don't see a difference in windows users downloading 6 gig of mp3s 
and Linux users pulling down 6 gigs of source simply because its more 
automated.

mk

> From: "scsijon" <scsijon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [SLE] MIrroring of Updates...
> Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 22:19:37 +1000
>
> Except we still don't (at last check) have a mirror in either Australia or
> New Zealand (where it use to be).Thailand or Taiwan are the nearest but the
> UK has the best continuous throughput and as for the USA mirrors,
> well.........
>
> scsijon
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harold !" <ambrosius1972@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 12:09 PM
> Subject: [SLE] MIrroring of Updates...
>
>
> > I recall that recently some messages were exchanged regarding mirroring 
> of
> a
> > ftp site to a local directory... I have a question;
> >
> > When you are updating your systems from a local (mirrored) source, how 
> are
> > you doing this? I've tried yast ans yast2 but each fails with a 
> statement
> > that it cannot "find" the files... I'm anxious to resolve this issue. 
> I've
> > posted on this list twice and emailed isupport with no help. I've gone
> > through the "Configuration" and "Handbook" which basically tells me to
> > update system librabries I should boot from the boot disks or the cd and
> > substitute update in place of install. However this fails with the same
> > message. Is this simply a directory structure issue? I'd like to burn 
> this
> > updates to a cd.
> >
> > Sorry to be a nag, but I really need to re-install and update properly 
> as
> > I'm getting complications...
> >
> > ThanX in advance;
> > Ambrosius
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