Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 23:50 -0500, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
>
>> Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>
>>
>>> The problem with the DVD is that it is > 2.0 GB and can not be served
>>> via apache (and even some FTP servers) because of this size. It is
>>> also a bandwidth issue and storage issue (there are about 20GB of
>>> DVDs, the
>>> entire tree is only 60GB without DVDs).
>>
>> Just out of pure curiosity. What is then Red Hat using? If I remeber
>> correctly, Fedora DVD images are available from their HTTP/FTP servers.
>> And I guess it would be bad PR if they don't use what they ship with
>> their flagship OS ;-)
>
> Neither RHEL or FedoraCore is available via DVD from official Red Hat
> channels ...
Close, but not quite. RHEL doesn't have an official DVD, but FC does.
> So they don't serve > 2gb files.
Sure they do, remember FTP?
[snip]
>
> If you don't believe me concerning RH not distributing DVDs, see this
> link:
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/iso/
No, I don't. And I have a link, too.
ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/iso/
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William Hooper
