From: Archer on
Eef Hartman wrote:
> Archer wrote:

----snip----

> > Has anyone downloaded 13.1?
>
> I've both downloaded (all 8) of the 13.1 iso's (6 CD's plus 32-
> as well as 64-bit DVD) as well as have been seeding those to the
> bittorrent network (and they have been dowloaded multiple times).
> So if you can't get bittorrent input, you may be firewalled for
> torrents either on your own machine or by your provider.

No, that's not the problem.

> Try another port (the default ones are well-known).
> I.E. I'm using port 61249 in Vuze.

I ended up getting a copy from my ISP's mirror (thanks again, Res!).

> But some sites I _know_ do work:
> ftp://elektroni.phys.tut.fi/slackware-13.1-iso (Finland)
> http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/slackware/slackware-13.1-iso (USA)
> ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/linux/mirrors/slackware/slackware-13.1-iso
> (Germany)

Thanks for those , Eef.

Archer
From: Archer on
On 2010-07-15, Richard Herbert <rherbert(a)sympatico.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:23:36 +0000, Archer wrote:
>
> > Actually, I didn't. The server cut the connection after 2G. Never had
> > any problem with ftp before, though.
> >
> > So far, I still don't have it. Got a copy from slackware.cs.utah.edu,
> > but it's corrupt.
> >
> > Very frustrating.
>
> I'm sincerely sorry you didn't succeed in downloading from the same site I
> had no problem with; I hope you were eventually successful.

Yes, thanks. I have a copy now.

> Sorry for all the bullshit you've had to endure in the meantime.

It seems that Dank and his ilk are everywhere nowadays. Bit sad, that.

Cheers,

Archer