[Sussex] Bloody Distros (again!)/knoppix downloads

[Stephen Williams]

On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 12:51, John D. wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> Recent distasters have made me reconsider distro's i.e. the installing 
> mandrake 10.1 community went pear shaped, as did the "fit of pique" 
> installing of knoppix 3.4 to my hard drive, arriving back at mandrake 10.0 
> official.
> 
> I've sent off for a set of Gentoo discs - Yup, a glutton for punishment. 
> 
> In the mean time, because my attempt at knoppix went to "rat shit", I've tried 
> to download it again (well a couple of times).
> 
> Using opera 7.54 to locate and download I've noticed that it gets so far, and 
> stops, the only way of continuing being to hit the actual "stop" button and 
> then "resume the transfer".
> 
> Any idea's as to how I'd find out whether it's my end, my ISP (pipex adsl 
> account) or the mirror that's causing the download to stop unexpectedly (and 
> yes the attempts at download have all been at various times)??
> 
> regards
> 
> John D.


John,

I have a number of Gentoo 2004.2 stage tarballs and live CD images. Let
me know which you wish and I will burn them to CD for you. Delivery Moot
Nite?

Steve Williams.