Re: Just a suggestion

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On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:40:21 -0800 (PST)
Peter Schmidt <zicronsoft@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi I'm a new user to Linux and I've never been able to
> use Fedora but I'd really like to.  Every time I
> attempt to download, it takes a half day at least to
> finish.  When it does, theres some error on the iso
> every single time or the download somehow messes up on
> the way.  I don't feel the need to order a DVD so
> instead I thought I would suggest making a mirror
> where there are maybe about 30 total .rar files.  This
> way people with slower internet can actually download
> the OS and people like me won't have to worry about a
> few MB causing the whole DVD to malfunction.  I
> personally wouldn't bother to do this with 8, once 9
> is released, then I would like to see segments.

Why is bittorrent not an option here?  It verifies as it downloads and
downloads things in smaller chunks so that it can continue where left
off at a later time.

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