Craig Mckenna wrote:

Matthias has copies of them, I burnt the for him last night ;)

<rant> Apart from the one coaster you found, the disc with the second ISO image on it and conveniently also the second install disc turned out to have CRC errors. That means that unless your CD writer has serious issues, so far every second SKY brand CD-R in my spindle has been faulty. In other words, resist buying cheap media at Woolworths! Anyway, here is how to recover an ISO image or any other large file that is still available on the Internet from a CD with a CRC error without having to download the entire thing again: - Copy the file up to the CRC error. - Use wget to resume download on the file for a while. - Get impatient. - Mount the faulty CD on a machine with Apache. - Create a symlink from your public_html directory to the file on CD. - Use wget to resume download on the file from that. - Be amused by the amazingly fast download rate. - Check the MD5 sum. So yes, I do have all three ISO images of Fedore Core 1 now. And many thanks again to Craig Mckenna for speeding up my download quite considerably. By the way, Fedora Core 1 looks a lot like Red Hat Linux 9 after someone replaced every mention of Red Hat with Fedora. I was going to give everyone a few more details, but the laptop I installed it on yesterday now freezes on the annoying graphical thing that is meant to cover up all that "scary" text when it boots. Personally I find a mostly black screen with random garbage in the top few lines a lot more intimidating. Well, so much for my review of. It comes with GNOME 2.4. </rant> If anyone wants a copy, bring three non-SKY brand CD-Rs to my place... -- Matthias -- http://matthias.dallmeier.net/

So yes, I do have all three ISO images of Fedore Core 1 now. And many thanks again to Craig Mckenna for speeding up my download quite considerably.

I would like a copy. Will reimburse for cost of GOOD quality CD-R media.

By the way, Fedora Core 1 looks a lot like Red Hat Linux 9 after someone

I didn't expect them to have changed much. This is a first release from the Fedora project after-all. From what I can tell it looks like RH9 will be the last RedHat branded SOHO targetted distro. Which is fine by me just as long as I can continue to use RHN to update my boxen. Anyone know if there is a Fedora channel on RHN yet?

all that "scary" text when it boots. Personally I find a mostly black screen with random garbage in the top few lines a lot more intimidating. Well, so much for my review of. It comes with GNOME 2.4.

There is support in RH9 for that too. Well the core is there. You could get a package off people.redhat.com to get it working in RH9. Never tried it though. I'm guessing it won't like all VESA BIOS's. Regards -- Oliver Jones » Director » oliver.jones(a)deeperdesign.com » +64 (21) 41 2238 Deeper Design Limited » +64 (7) 377 3328 » www.deeperdesign.com

Anyway, here is how to recover an ISO image or any other large file that is still available on the Internet from a CD with a CRC error without having to download the entire thing again:

- Copy the file up to the CRC error.

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- Check the MD5 sum.

I recommend dding the cdrom onto your harddisk, (dd if=/dev/cdrom, of=./disk1.iso bs=1M) then using rsync to sync up your local iso and the one on your nearest iso server.