Question about slackware 8.1 rootdisk

[Alex Snow]

Sorry Ed,

Answered my own question.  I can find the old images on the site you
suggested.  It's much faster than distro.ibiblio.org or ftp.slackware.com
which I've been using.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward L. Barnes" <ebarnes at enigma2.cjb.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 9:50 PM
Subject: Re: Question about slackware 8.1 rootdisk


> Alex, you weren't picky enough when you chose where to download your
> Slackware from, if you uyse the sourceforge mirror to download from
> it'll be bruitally slow however I find that a better place to download
> most Linux versions from as they mirror most distroes is:
> ftp.rutgers.edu.
> Hth!
> Ed Barnes ebarnes at enigma2.cjb.net
>
> On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Alex Snow wrote:
>
> > I have been able to get ahold of the ISO's, but it's so damn hard to
> > download them because the servers are so slow and or full.
> > -------------------------------
> > Alex Snow
> > Email: alex_snow at gmx.net
> > BBS: telnet://bbs1.dyndns.org
> > web: http://web.alex-snow.dhs.org
> > The Computer Repair Guy:
> > If It Ain't Broke, I'll mess With It Till It Is!
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 4:19 PM
> > Subject: Re: Question about slackware 8.1 rootdisk
> >
> >
> > > I haven't looked at the root disks yet but I'm kinda disappointed that
> > > the other ISO images aren't available for download anymore.  And
> > > furthermore, I've been to two different slackware sites and the
> > > transmission speeds are horrible! I have a broadband connection here
> > > and the one install ISO image is downloading at dial-up speeds! that
> > > sucks.
> > >
> > > I'm seriously thinking about maybe looking into Debian.  I'll have to
> > > learn another distro and the layout of config files and all that
> > > but...
> > >
> > > Is it true the only way to get the other CD's is to buy them now?
> > >
> > > On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 02:47:24PM -0400, Alex Snow wrote:
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > I just downloaded the slackware 8.1 rootdisk and found that the file
is
> > over
> > > > 1.44 megs.  How can I write this to a disk?
> > > > -------------------------------
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> > > > The Computer Repair Guy:
> > > > If It Ain't Broke, I'll mess With It Till It Is!
> > > >
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