[TriLUG] mandrake 9.0 ISOs?

[Mike Mueller]

On Tuesday 10 December 2002 20:02, Greg Brown wrote:
> Does anyone know of a nice, fast, *working* FTP/HTTP/whatever sever
> which houses the Mandrake 9.0 ISOs?  If so could ya please shoot me an
> e-mail with the address?
>
>    I'm currently downloading from somewhere in Europe and I think the
> download MIGHT be done sometime next week if I'm lucky.

I know the problem well.  There are mirrors all over the place and one that 
screams today will crawl tomorrow and vice versa.

I got some relief using the script I wrote below.  No rocket science for 
sure.  But it provided me with a quick way to test many sites and then 
alternate between my favorites.  Even with this method I might have to nurse 
a download for several hours.  With the distros getting ever larger, the 
problem  compounds itself.

I added the "xoptions" so I could log in to the trilug ftp server (note the 
last entry in the list by providing my userid and passwd in the wget command.

If you call the script getiso then you invoke with 

$ getiso 31

and it uses the 31st entry in the list of strings to form a wget command.

Here's a list of some mandrake iso mirrors.

The site at www.linuxiso.org is not responding.  That's where I got a lot of 
the entries below.

Be sure to check the MD5s after you get the goods to ensure a clean catch.

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#!/usr/bin/python
import os, sys

# edit the next line to get disc 1,2,3 etc.
suffix='iso/i386/valhalla-i386-disc2.iso'
sitenum = sys.argv[1]
xoptions = ''
if len(sys.argv) == 3:
	xoptions = sys.argv[2]
site= [
'ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/RedHat/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/redhat.com/dist/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz/MIRRORS/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.dc.aleron.net/pub/linux/redhat/ftp.redhat.com/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/redhat/redhat-7.3-en/',
'ftp://redhat.dulug.duke.edu/pub/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.ece.cornell.edu/pub/linux/redhat/7.3-en-iso/',
'ftp://helios.dii.utk.edu/pub/linux/redhat/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://mirror.cs.princeton.edu/pub/mirrors/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://uselinux.org/pub/redhat/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/redhat/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.shuttleamerica.com/pub/mirrors/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://mirror.i-link.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://mirrors.hpcf.upr.edu/pub/Mirrors/redhat/ftp.redhat.com/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://acs-mirror.ucsd.edu/linux/redhat/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/Linux/redhat/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://mirror.atlantic.net/pub/linux/redhat/ftp.redhat.com/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.webtrek.com/pub/mirrors/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.crc.ca/ftp/systems/linux/redhat/ftp.redhat.com/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://redhat.eyetap.org/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://limestone.uoregon.edu/redhat/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.unet.brandeis.edu/pub/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://mirror.atlantic.net/pub/Linux/redhat/ftp.redhat.com/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/redhat/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.dc.aleron.net/pub/linux/redhat/ftp.redhat.com/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.sheriff.martin.fl.us/en/',
'ftp://thales.memphis.edu/pub/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/redhat-ftp/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.uvsq.fr/pub/redhat/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/MIRRORS/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/linux/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/redhat.com/dist/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.rhnet.is/pub/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://tux.cprm.net/pub/ftp.redhat.com/7.3/en/',
'ftp://redhat.tu-bs.de/ftp/pub/linux/redhat/7.3/en/',
'ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/7.3/en/',
'ftp://alviss.et.tudelft.nl/pub/redhat/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.di.fct.unl.pt/pub/linux/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.puug.pt/linux/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/RedHat/redhat/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.linux.is/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.strasbourg.linuxfr.org/redhat/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/RedHat/ftp/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/mirror/linux/redhat/ftp/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/linux/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.fi.udc.es/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/Linux/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://download.xs4all.nl/pub/mirror/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.sajinet.com.pe/pub/linux/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://mirror.netglobalis.net/pub/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.isl.net.nz/pub/linux/dist/redhat/redhat-7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.netcraft.com.au/pub/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.kddlabs.co.jp/sites/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.hjc.edu.sg/opensource/linux/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.singnet.com.sg/opensource/linux/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://ftp.riken.go.jp/pub/Linux/redhat/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'http://mirror.netglobalis.net/pub/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'ftp://kickstart.linux.ncsu.edu/mirror/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.3/en/',
'http://mirrors.trilug.org/redhat/linux/7.3/en/'
]
cmd = 'wget -c ' + xoptions + ' ' + site[int(sitenum)] + suffix
print cmd
os.system(cmd)
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-- 
Mike