On 4/11/2003 4:30 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Neil Bird wrote: > > >>Around about 11/04/2003 11:59, Robert P. J. Day typed ... >> >>>On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Neil Bird wrote: >>> >>>> I found shrike discs 4-6 on a RH mirror; the SRPMS & 1-3 discs match >>>>those on the RH FTP server - so what might these 4-6 discs be? >>> >>>the SRPMS. :-) >> >> Ha ha :-/ >> >> >>FTP Directory: /redhat/9/en/iso/i386/ >> >> Parent Directory >> MD5SUM . . . . . . . . . . . . . Apr 01 21:09 1k >> shrike-SRPMS-disc1.iso . . . . . Mar 14 03:39 622816k >> shrike-SRPMS-disc2.iso . . . . . Mar 14 03:43 660832k >> shrike-SRPMS-disc3.iso . . . . . Mar 14 03:46 434720k >> shrike-i386-disc1.iso. . . . . . Mar 14 03:26 653312k >> shrike-i386-disc2.iso. . . . . . Mar 14 03:30 661632k >> shrike-i386-disc3.iso. . . . . . Mar 14 03:35 496672k >> shrike-i386-disc4.iso. . . . . . Apr 02 12:09 622816k >> shrike-i386-disc5.iso. . . . . . Apr 02 12:12 660832k >> shrike-i386-disc6.iso. . . . . . Apr 02 12:14 434720k > > > your point being ... what exactly? even without ever having > seen the contents of those CDs, the fact that the respective > sizes of the SRPMS CDs and CDs 4-6 are *identical* would seem > to support my hypothesis. > > might they even be symlinks? Could be.... (in looney toon voice) - especially given that the dates are diferent for disc4-6. - Problem is Newbie users may not know the difference and grab both anyway. "Holy Crap Ma... This here Red Hat thang now 9 CD's big" -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - rjohnson@xxxxxxxxxx Linux/Network Administrator - Medata, Inc. (from home) PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc
