RedHat 7.2 Released

[E Frank Ball]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:17:50AM -0700, Eric Eisenhart wrote:
} The "os" directory will automatically open up when it's done mirroring.  I'm
} 99% sure that shouldn't take too much effort because it already has *most*
} of that mirror correctly there from my little "mount -t iso9660 -o loop,ro
} /title/mirror.nblug.org/ftp/pub/mirror/redhat/7.2/en/iso/i386/enigma-i386-disc2.iso
} /mnt/cdrom/" and "(cd /mnt/cdrom ; tar --preserve -cf - . ) | tar --preserve
} -xvf -" type tricks.
} -- 
}     Eric Eisenhart   Freedom is slavery.      http://eric.eisenhart.com/

Having our own mirror is nice:

ncftp ...updates/7.2/en/os/i686 > get *.rpm
glibc-2.2.4-19.i686.rpm:                                 5.60 MB  358.67 kB/s  
kernel-2.4.9-7.i686.rpm:                                 9.73 MB  352.39 kB/s  
kernel-enterprise-2.4.9-7.i686.rpm:                     10.08 MB  437.57 kB/s  
kernel-smp-2.4.9-7.i686.rpm:                            10.07 MB  458.79 kB/s  

What is an "enterprise" kernal?

The first iso came in around 250kB/s, the second was a little slower.
They have already been downloaded 3 times from my site at Agilent.

Any chance we can get an iso of the documentation CD?  I like to load
all the HOWTOs in a text and html formats.

I was wondering about the 
(cd /mnt/cdrom ; tar --preserve -cf - . ) | tar --preserve } -xvf - "trick", 
what does this do that cp -a doesn't?

Any reason not to just mount the ISOs with -o loop and using that
instead of doubling the disc usage by having all the files stored
individually too?

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   E Frank Ball                efball at efball.com