Anything that can be done to accommodate users with _very_ slow connections? ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: Etch netinstaller has no eth0 in qemu Date: Sunday 04 March 2007 17:26 From: Uwe Dippel <udippel@gmail.com> To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org On 3/4/07, Uwe Dippel <udippel@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'll try another download. > > Which takes around one day in MY ... . No, sorry, I'll never get it, ever. This is just silly: while I am downloading you guys upload the latest version, and then wget switches the length. --17:18:44-- http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso -cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso [...] Length: 166,703,104 (159M), 89,864,430 (86M) remaining [application/octet-stream] 46% [+++++++++++++++++ ] 77,501,891 3.67K/s ETA 6:22:39 17:21:39 (3.79 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 77501891. Retrying. --17:21:49-- http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso -cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso [...] Length: 166,707,200 (159M), 89,205,309 (85M) remaining [application/octet-stream] 46% [+++++++++++++++++ ] 78,165,108 2.19K/s ETA 10:37:26 Be fscking intelligent and *leave* a download for everyone to pick it up, before you replace it. Leave older versions in separate directories and just change the link to it. Uwe -------------------------------------------------------
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