Just a suggestion

Sarvoday Bishnoi sarvoday.bishnoi at gmail.com
Mon Feb 11 19:43:35 UTC 2008


Hi,
And above all its resumable.

2008/2/11 Jesse Keating <jkeating at j2solutions.net>:

> On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:40:21 -0800 (PST)
> Peter Schmidt <zicronsoft at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi I'm a new user to Linux and I've never been able to
> > use Fedora but I'd really like to.  Every time I
> > attempt to download, it takes a half day at least to
> > finish.  When it does, theres some error on the iso
> > every single time or the download somehow messes up on
> > the way.  I don't feel the need to order a DVD so
> > instead I thought I would suggest making a mirror
> > where there are maybe about 30 total .rar files.  This
> > way people with slower internet can actually download
> > the OS and people like me won't have to worry about a
> > few MB causing the whole DVD to malfunction.  I
> > personally wouldn't bother to do this with 8, once 9
> > is released, then I would like to see segments.
>
> Why is bittorrent not an option here?  It verifies as it downloads and
> downloads things in smaller chunks so that it can continue where left
> off at a later time.
>
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