Kumar Appaiah wrote:
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
Those who want to download the DVD iso and find the dvd servers slow, can use the jigdo download method. It downloads all packages individually and assembles everything into an ISO inside your pc. http://debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/
Thanks for pointing this out. I actually recommend that people use jigdo irrespective of whether they have a fast or slow mirror.
You might also want to try ftp://ftp.iitm.ac.in/debian with jigdo, especially if you are in Chennai (it has been fast for me in Chennai). As I write this, archive update is in progress though. (A file called Archive-Update-in-Progress-rocky-mountain.csail.mit.edu.lock is present there at this time).
I was under the impression that the Indian servers of Debian were slow or non-existent but this is good news. I read your nice article on Kartik's site.
I had already done one half of the download from the Taiwan server so I continued the same and finally downloaded Lenny DVD1, Lenny live KDE CD and a new version of Finnix (92.1).
Lenny live cd is a lovely no nonsense CD that does what it is meant to do. It comes loaded with OpenOffice 2.4.
Finnix http://www.finnix.org/ is a live Debian based CD that brings up a root command prompt for all diagonistic purposes and system maintainence. I was extensively using the older version. It is a tiny atom bomb. The new version has lovely boot options including Smart Boot Loader to choose boot devices. The elinks browser is fun to use too.