Mirror Mirror on the Web Where for art Thou?
Ok, so I'm neither a Grimm, nor a Shakespeare. But I would like to know if there is/are reliable mirrors of SuSE's main FTP site. I have, over the years, tried to use mirrors when possible. Unfortunately I've usually found them badly out of date, or incomplete. I haven't checked recently. Today I decided to break down and fetch SuSE 9.0 off the web because I haven't had the money to pay for the distro. The SuSE site is *very* slow. It's been going for the better part of 13 hours, and is only 15% complete. The really cool irony is that, shortly after I kicked off the download I received a nice big check in the mail. I ran to the bank and deposited it. The first thing I paid for was SuSE 9.0. (Well I did stop for a burger on the way back.) Nonetheless, I still want to get the bits off the web. The box won't be here for a week yet. I'm probably going to ride it out this time with the download I started. I didn't use mirror or any kind of control tool, just gftp. I really don't want to try and recover this session from another server. But for the future, can other suggest reliable mirror sites? STH
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 05:01:26AM -0500, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
Ok, so I'm neither a Grimm, nor a Shakespeare.
But I would like to know if there is/are reliable mirrors of SuSE's main FTP site. I have, over the years, tried to use mirrors when possible. Unfortunately I've usually found them badly out of date, or incomplete. I haven't checked recently. Today I decided to break down and fetch SuSE 9.0 off the web because I haven't had the money to pay for the distro. The SuSE site is *very* slow. It's been going for the better part of 13 hours, and is only 15% complete.
The really cool irony is that, shortly after I kicked off the download I received a nice big check in the mail. I ran to the bank and deposited it. The first thing I paid for was SuSE 9.0. (Well I did stop for a burger on the way back.)
Nonetheless, I still want to get the bits off the web. The box won't be here for a week yet. I'm probably going to ride it out this time with the download I started. I didn't use mirror or any kind of control tool, just gftp. I really don't want to try and recover this session from another server.
But for the future, can other suggest reliable mirror sites?
STH
I use ftp.oregonstate.edu quite often and it's very reliable, fast and upto date... -- Jim Norton - http://www.jimnorton.org 2 + 2 = 5 for large values of 2
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On Thursday 22 January 2004 10:01, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
But for the future, can other suggest reliable mirror sites?
Our good list-friend Snr Valores, was so kind as to recently mention :- ________________ #!/bin/sh # This script is to download SuSE 9.0 FTP version # # (c) G. Ballester Valor, 2003. # # (GPL licensed) # # Use it as your own risk # # UNC0MMENT ONLY ONE LINE, depending on your mirror selection: # (by default is set ftp.mirror.ac.uk) # # Usage: # 1) put the script in the directory where you want to place the SuSE tree # 2) exec the script # get_suse90 # 3) SuSE will be placed in 'i386/9.0/...' directory. # # NOTE, you can interrupt. Next time It will begin where it left the work. # _BE_PATIENT_, it has to download about 3.6 Gbytes. # # Thanks to SuSE to make available this superb release. # # This script WILL NOT DOWNLOAD source rpms to save space. If you want # to download also these files you have to supress ' -R "*.src.rpm" ' from # the commanline # # If you want that your download don't get blocked your small banwidth line, # you can add the option '--limit-rate=NUM_KBPS' before 'ftp:' were NUM_KBPS # is the max KiloBytes per second you want to download. You have to add the # suffix 'k' to indicate kilobytes, example '8k'. # # ENJOY!. Have a lot of fun! ;-) # # wget -t 0 -m -nH -c --cut-dirs=4 -R "*.src.rpm" ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.0/* # wget -t 0 -m -nH -c --cut-dirs=5 -R "*.src.rpm" ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/suse/suse/i386/9.0/* wget --passive-ftp -t 0 -m -nH -c --cut-dirs=6 -R "*.src.rpm" ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/9.0/* # wget -t 0 -m -nH -c --cut-dirs=2 -R "*.src.rpm" ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/ftp.suse.com/i386/9.0/* ____________________________ best wishes ____________ sent on Linux ____________
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