9.2 Ftp Up

Hi,

I did some searching and it seems that LFS is included in both your Kernel and Reiser, judging by the version numbers. So I'm wondering if wget is compiled with lfs support. Maybe upgrade to the latest version of wget would help ?

Robert

So, I guess we are going to see an increase in install questions in the forum. Is this going to be another 9.1 personal thing where people try to do things and the programs aren't there? From what I have seen so far in tuis thread, the ftp version looks like it is intended for people who know what they are doing.

My recommendation for the United States users, go to Amazon.com and purchase the 9.2 update for $50. You can use it to do a new install. The only thing not in the package is the 300 page user manual which you can download in pdf format.

several points.

boot.iso in the boot directory is the same file as the mini-install.iso in the iso directory - see the md5sums


you can't use wget to download the dvd.iso - there's a bug in wget, it's not a bug in the linux file system or a limitation to 32bit files, as long as you're using a kernel that's less than a year or two old!
Redhat have a patched wget, but don't seem to have released the patches to the gnu project. This also affects wget on FreeBSD - as I found out when I tried to make a local mirror of the suse9.2 tree on a machine at work, and it went berserk!


the ftp provided dvd.iso seems to be intended purely as a starting point, you would then add an install source of the ftp server to get the rest - sources, devels and stuff I guess.