Am Donnerstag, 1. September 2005 04:47 schrieb Steven Lamb:
I have downloaded every beta version of open suse via bit torrent and I have found that my downloads from bit torrent are far slower than from ftp.gwdg.de so I end up downloading them from there because none of the mirrors have been updated. I have served out over 6gb from my home connection. I would prefer to simply have one iso to download and then install the packages on demand or to setup a Yast installation source and grab the latest updates from there. This would hopefully reduce the load on the servers because users would only be downloading updates / deltas to there currently installed rpms.
Hi Steve I always just downloaded CD 1 (as there is no minimal boot CD) and started the setup with the parameter "install=ftp://your.preferred.mirror/mirror/opensuse/SL-10.0-OSS-beta3/inst-source". Then you will get the net install where every single RPM you will install is downloaded, not the whole ISOs. Daniel PS ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/opensuse has always been very fast. It always delivered at 2 MBit/s which is actually the limit on my side. Perhaps we could balance the load manually and relieve gwdg.de.