[wellylug] Mandrake Linux 9.2 ISOs Publicly Released!

[Brenda Wallace]

still no NZ mirror.
paradise use to have a mirror :-) but things have changed there.

any one here got space and bandwidth to spare? 


On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 05:25, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> 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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Brenda Wallace
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Catalyst IT, P O Box 11053, Manners Street
Level 2, 150-154 Willis Street, Wellington


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