[ubuntu-za] Ubuntu distribution around Lepalale

[Marius Kruger]

On 19 May 2011 11:50, frans <dormakorp at vodamail.co.za> wrote:

> And that is what i experience too, though it does help if your dekstop pc
> install and your laptop have a sata drive at least, also make sure to burn
> your install cd's as slow as possible, even an hour spend here can safe you
> a lot of headache in the future. though 4xspeed usually are slow enough. for
> most.
>

What I do is just check the md5sums after downloading, and then when burning
with k3b I tick the "verify written data" box to be sure. Is it possible
that this can miss errors that burning at 4xspeed won't?

On getting the cd maybe I can try to mail it to you, not sure if that will
work or what it will cost..
Recently I fell in love with bittorrent which is great for downloading big
stuff reliably over shaky connections because it downloads little pieces at
a time and checks the hash of each part. But it sort of requires that you
upload stuff too. On ktorrent you can limit the upload speed to 5KiB/s so
that it doesn't suck out all your bandwidth. Though if you download the
alternative cd now, there is probably way more seeders than leachers by now.
maybe worth a try..
http://releases.ubuntu.com/11.04/ubuntu-11.04-alternate-i386.iso.torrent

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<>< Marius ><>
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