Redhat 9 ISOs

[Peter Motyka]

Redhat 9.0 is out but does not seem to be on Redhat's FTP or mirror sites.  It is however, being distributed over the BitTorrent P2P network.  Slashdot has alot of great things to say about this P2P protocol...  So far I am getting pretty poor speeds from it.  Of couse, my upload rate is much higher than my download rate.  When will the P2P community ever learn.   In order to download, you must upload.  Leeches ruin P2P for everyone.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/31/1256236&mode=thread

[William Grim]

Yeah, for the first week you can only get it off their RHN (supposedly).

[bill corcoran]

Yeah, well, you can get the Mandrake 9.1 ISOs now =) .  In fact, I already have them and anxiously await the upgrade.

[Peter Motyka]

Well, I am downloading the RH9 ISOs now from BitTorrent... but they are coming down at 10k/s.  18 hours 20 min 32 sec to go :(  Perhaps I will upload them to solar when I am done for a CAOS mirror.

[DaleDoe]

Yea, I think I'll wait before I download redhat 9.  I'm still waiting for traffic to die down so I can download Slackware 9 in less than 8 hours.

[DaleDoe]

Yea, I've got redhat 9 disks 1-3 (disk 1 is still downloading) and slackware 9 from www.ausgamers.com.  Except for redhat disk 1, I've been seeing speeds around 50 kb/s.  

I have them shared on my temp directory on \\cs66\temp and have burned copies for myself, but I'm looking to see if anyone on campus wants to put them up somewhere for ftp, maybe on solar, so y'all don't have to spend hours downloading.  The isos will be on my temp till I log off about 8 or 9 this evening.  Hopefully someone will find something more permanent by then.

[Peter Motyka]

Sounds like you guys have a local copy already.  I will kill my upload to solar.  I was getting 20k/s and was only done with 30% of disk 1.  Dale, make sure to test the md5 sum of the images.  I heard there are quite a few corrupt ISOs going around.

400c7fb292c73b793fb722532abd09ad  shrike-i386-disc1.iso
6b8ba42f56b397d536826c78c9679c0a  shrike-i386-disc2.iso
af38ac4316ba20df2dec5f990913396d  shrike-i386-disc3.iso

Peter

[DaleDoe]

Whell, traffic is increasing, so my download of disk 1 is slowing down. I'm up to 60%, but I'm only getting 20k/s now.  As far as having a local copy, I just have them on my temp folder on one of the CS department computers.  That's gone when I log off.  Greg said he'd try to find a place for it tomorrow on solar, so I'm going to lock cs66 and leave myself logged in with temp shared until tomorrow.

How do I check the md5 sums?  I burned the ones I have to CDs already, but I don't know if what it burned is corrupt or not.

[Peter Motyka]

To check the md5sum, use the cygwin install on the lab computer (hopefully that is still on the image).  When you have a cygwin bash shell in the current directory of the ISOs just issue the command "md5sum *.iso" and make sure the output matches the ones I posted.  This will verfiy that a few bits didnt get lost in the packet storm while downloading.

[DaleDoe]

Sweet, the ones I have so far check out.  Thanks.  I'm still waiting on disk 1 to finish downloading--only 3 hours remaining.

[Victor Cardona]

Yeah well Red Hat sucks anyway. For everyone else there is SuSE :-)

Victor

[Peter Motyka]

Love it or Leave it Victor!  USA made Linux rules!  German communist Linux stinks! ;)

[William Grim]

You hippy communist, mwahahahahaha!  Just joking.

Anyway, thanks to DaleDoe, we now have Red Hat 9.0 and Slackware 9.0 (you're damn right) for download at ftp://solar.cs.siue.edu/

All you pansies stop poking Red Hat and try a real programmer's/admin's distro: Slackware.  It make you barbarian also smell like gym.  Yeah, I know, I purposely messed up my speech for that.

[Peter Motyka]

Did you really intend to make those ISOs availible via anonymous ftp? Last time I did that Solars's ftpd got hammered.by lots of off campus downloads.  Who knows how people found out we has ISOs for *linux, but they found it and abused it.  Perhaps putting them someone that requires people to login will prevent the leeches from clogging the campus internet pipes.

Peter

[William Grim]

Yeah, I haven't had any problems doing it lately.

I've had the other ISOs anonymously shared for quite some time now.