Why is this list so quiet?
Jim Cornette
fct-cornette at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jul 19 11:34:12 UTC 2004
Douglas Furlong wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 13:21 -0500, Gerry Tool wrote:
>
>>I have been testing RH/Fedora releases since RHL 7.3. The mailing lists
>>for testing have always been very lively, until this release. There
>>seem to be very few testers posting, and even fewer community developers
>>responding. Is that just my false impression?
>>
>>I'm concerned that this release and its successors will not receive
>>enough criticism to fix bugs that should be caught before the final
>>release of FC3.
>
> I can think of one reason.
>
> I have just tried to install (via http) using some UK/IE mirrors that I
> know of, and none of them are completely upto date it would appear.
>
> One of the problems with the previous testing releases was the mirrors
> being out of date and it being a challenge just to find the right mirror
> to use.
>
> I would have thought waiting almost a week after the full release would
> have resulted in me avoiding these problems but apparently not.
>
>
>
I dowloaded the isos from ncsu on the release date. These seemed to be
up2date and took less than 4 hrs to download on that date.
This is an ftp mirror and I've installed from this before w/ success.
Usually, they are a day behind. I was surprised that they were current.
If no luck, try bittorrent with the program installed and the following
command in a shell where you want the isos installed. I got the
bittorrent from Fedora Extras. This version works nicely.
btdownloadcurses.py --max_upload_rate 350 --url
http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/FC3-test1-binary-i386.torrent
This should be one commandline.
I've been giving up bits w/ the images that I ftped down from ncsu since
release date. I only get upload speeds around 20 kps/s though. (no time
downloading.) The disks md5summed fine and passed media tests for all
disks when burned.
Jim
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