Getting LATEST-Stable

Bryan Berch dfbsd at earthlink.net
Wed Dec 15 19:32:06 PST 2004


Erik P. Skaalerud wrote:

Bryan Berch wrote:

I have been trying to download the LATEST-Stable.iso.gz a couple of 
times from a few of the mirriors and with my slow dial-up the 
download stops due to the mirriors updating the iso.  Takes me 
between 12 to 16 hours to get the file.  I was wondering if this file 
is only updated once a day or how often and if only once a day is 
there a set time when it occurs so I could time start my download?  
Would like to get a newer iso, but will use my  dfly-1.0A_REL.iso if 
all else fails on another machine.

Bryan


Hello Bryan. The LATEST-Stable.iso.gz is just a symlink to the latest 
ISO. This would explain why your download gets halted, since this 
symlink changes every 24 hours to a new image.

Try to download this ISO image, it is the latest one on my mirror. 
Also, make sure you download with some kind of resume-capable download 
software incase your connection is unrelieable.

http://bsdtech.com/DragonFly/snapshots/i386/ISO-IMAGES/2CSNAP-20041213-1130-Stable.iso.gz 

(replace http with ftp if you prefer that).

Hope this helps!
- Erik
Thanks Erik.  A day later, but I have it.

Bryan





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