[PLUG] Distro downloads 'n stuff (John Jason Jordan)

Sun Jun 22 02:50:47 UTC 2008

On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:45:39 -0700
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On Saturday, 21 Jun 2008 12:35:27 -0700, John Jason Jordan
<johnxj at comcast.net> typed:

> On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:28:49 -0600
> Bill Thoen <bthoen at gisnet.com> dijo:
> 
> > John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > > OK, I had already found that link. I know what an .md5 file is.
> > > And .asc is an extension either for an ASCII file or an Autodesk
> > > export file. Where is the .iso file? Or a torrent link for it?
> > >   
> > Click on the README at that URL and you'll see that you need to go
> > to http://slackware.com/getslack/
> 
> Yeah, I did that. In fact, I had already been at /getslack. But when
> you are at /getslack you find a list of a couple dozen mirror sites.
> When you go to one of the mirror sites you get an Index of
> Pub/Slackware, one of which is a /slackware-12.1 folder. In that
> folder you find
> 
> [DIR]	Parent Directory 	 	 -
> ANNOUNCE.12_1 	29-Apr-2008 00:07 	10K
> BOOTING.TXT 	01-Oct-2006 23:36 	20K
> CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT 	30-Apr-2008 21:38 	17K
> CHECKSUMS.md5 	28-May-2008 20:57 	571K
> CHECKSUMS.md5.asc 	28-May-2008 20:57 	197
> COPYING 	09-Jun-1994 21:28 	18K
> COPYING3 	29-Jun-2007 23:21 	34K
> COPYRIGHT.TXT 	29-Apr-2008 00:05 	19K
> CRYPTO_NOTICE.TXT 	01-Oct-2006 23:37 	616
> ChangeLog.txt 	28-May-2008 19:46 	139K
> FAQ.TXT 	01-Jul-2007 16:24 	33K
> FILELIST.TXT 	28-May-2008 20:55 	746K
> GPG-KEY 	26-Feb-2003 17:34 	1.5K
> PACKAGES.TXT 	30-Apr-2008 20:41 	472K
> RELEASE_NOTES 	29-Apr-2008 00:07 	4.0K
> SPEAKUP_DOCS.TXT 	30-Jun-2007 23:39 	14K
> SPEAK_INSTALL.TXT 	29-Apr-2008 00:05 	17K
> Slackware-HOWTO 	29-Apr-2008 00:08 	60K
> UPGRADE.TXT 	29-Apr-2008 00:05 	4.8K
> [DIR]	extra/ 	01-May-2008 13:43 	-
> [DIR]	isolinux/ 	30-Apr-2008 17:42 	-
> [DIR]	kernels/ 	30-Apr-2008 16:34 	-
> [DIR]	pasture/ 	27-Mar-2008 22:41 	-
> [DIR]	patches/ 	28-May-2008 20:55 	-
> [DIR]	slackware/ 	30-Apr-2008 20:41 	-
> [DIR]	source/ 	30-Apr-2008 20:44 	-
> [DIR]	testing/ 	04-Apr-2008 22:14 	-
> [DIR]	usb-and-pxe-installers/	30-Apr-2008 17:43
> 
> I tried each of the [DIR] folders above, but each one contained
> multiple additional folders. I don't know how deep I have to go to
> find the ISO file, but I gave up after 15 minutes. And bear in mind
> that there are a couple dozen mirrors, all of which seem to have the
> same directory structure without a clear way to find the ISO.
> Searching every folder on every mirror site would take hours.
> 
> Normally there is an .iso file, plus an .md5 file, and .torrent file.
> The torrent file is only a couple K as it just contains information
> that your torrent client needs in order to download the .iso while
> sharing it with other down- and uploaders. You download the .torrent
> file and then open it in your torrent client program (Bittorrent,
> Ktorrent, Azureus, etc.).
> 
> I don't know where Slackware buried the torrent and ISO files, but I
> give up looking for them.

John,

Looking at your directory listing, I would have to say that that
_is_ the .iso.  That is to say, that entire directory structure is
what goes onto the DVD.  Assuming you are using an FTP client, I would
be willing to bet that an 'ls -R' would give you the _entire_ distro
listing.  I suppose you could download it that way; most FTP clients
will do recursive downloads these days.  One advantage to that method
is that the FTP client will also resume a download if it gets
interrupted.  No need to re-download everything you've already got, or
select files by hand.  (I've done that.  Bleah.)  On the other hand,
you'd have to download everything to a (large) temporary directory,
from which you could build a .iso image.  A bittorrent or jigdo download
would be simpler.

Dale

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