burn-it-yerself Linux

Stan konastan at hawaii.rr.com
Thu Jan 25 11:05:54 PST 2001


Kevin,

Where did you get the download accelerator program??

Stan



At 03:51 PM 1/25/01 -1000, you wrote:
>hmm...depends, sometimes roadrunner is slow.  I use a program called
>download accelerator.  it splits the file into 7 pieces and it downloads the
>seven pieces at the sametime.  at the end of the download it puts the 7
>pieces back together, that takes a couple of minutes if it's 650mb file.  a
>redhat iso file will take about 45-60 minutes if you use download
>accelerator and maybe 120 minutes without it.  sometimes 35 minutes if the
>ftp is really fast.  who knows, sometimes fast sometime not.
>
>Kevin
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Robert Green" <aloha_moon at yahoo.com>
>To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at luau.hi.net>
>Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 3:33 PM
>Subject: [luau] Re: burn-it-yerself Linux
>
>
> > Out of curiosity, has anybody downloaded a
> > distribution to burn your own using RoadRunner? What
> > kind of time are we talking about to transfer it?
> > Granted I can start the transfer and walk away, but
> > just curious to know if somebody that isn't on a T-1
> > has done it before ....
> >
> > Rob
> >
> >
> > --- Myles Uyema <luau at uyema.net> wrote:
> > > ftp://ftp.nuri.net/pub/FreeISO/ has a number of
> > > different Linux and BSD
> > > distributions in iso9660 format for easy CD
> > > burnings.
> > >
> >
> >
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