[wellylug] Mandrake Linux 9.2 ISOs Publicly Released!
Jamie Dobbs
jamie.dobbs at orcon.net.nz
Wed Nov 19 16:25:37 NZDT 2003
Might I suggest the following site then:
http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/
you can choose mirrors etc. for updates/contribs etc. and it will even tell
you the commands to enter to 'register' then as default download locations.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brenda Wallace" <brenda at wallace.net.nz>
To: "wellylug" <wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz>
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: [wellylug] Mandrake Linux 9.2 ISOs Publicly Released!
> there are lots of nz iso mirrors, but haven't found the rpms... :-(
> ftp://debian.co.nz/Mandrake/i586/9.2/
>
>
> On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 05:09, Jonathan Harker wrote:
> > Brenda Wallace wrote:
> > > I'm not very happy with mandrake 9.2 so far, and have rolled back a
lot
> > > of my rpms to the version that came with 9.1
> > >
> > > most notably (for me) fluxbox is broken, rpm doesn't correspond to
it's
> > > man page, and ImageMagick doesn't install correctly. along with a few
> > > other niggles.
> > >
> > > I remember being unhappy with 9.1 at first, so i guess i'll wait a few
> > > more months and see if they fix these.
> >
> > There is a whole ton of updates for 9.2 detailed at
> > http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/updates.php?dis=9.2
> >
> > and available from
> > ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/
> >
> > As far as I can tell there is no .nz or .au mirror.
> >
> > It adds up to 180 MB, I could burn it all onto a CD if you like. Even
better
> > would be some spare space somewhere where we could set up a NZ mirror!
> >
> > J
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