The CentOS team is happy to announce the availability of CentOS-4.0 (RC1) for i386. This product supports AMD Athlon, Athlon XP, Duron, Intel Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4 and Pentium Xeon processors. i586 based CPU's are also supported.
A bittorent for CD binary iso files is available from: http://beta.centos.org/centos/4.0beta/isos/i386/CentOS-4.0.rc1-i386-bin1to5....
The only way to download ISO's is via bittorrent. Please leave your download client running after the download is complete (with ports 6881-6889 open) as your client will become part of the peer to peer bittorrent network and reduce the load on our network mirrors. If you need some quick pointers for getting up to speed on bittorrent read:
http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=24
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NOTE: This is a Release Candidate distribution build and may not be suitable for use in production environments. We encourage you to provide feedback on this build via the Mailing Lists.
However, any errors or bugs you encounter should be reported to us via bugzilla on http://www.centos.org/bugs
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RC1 - Expected life span is 14 days from Release. Within this time period we expect to move to a Final Release. Unless there are any urgent security issues, there will be no package update provided for RC1.
If you are currently running Centos4/Beta i386, you should take a look at the release notes at : http://beta.centos.org/centos/4.0beta/os/i386/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html, before attempting the upgrade.
We are working on an upgrade path from CentOS3 to CentOS4. Once complete, it will be posted into the Mailing Lists as well as posted online at www.centos.org
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Known Issues include a problem with the initial splash screen displayed at CD Boot time.
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A bittorent for CD binary iso files is available from: http://beta.centos.org/centos/4.0beta/isos/i386/CentOS-4.0.rc1-i386-bin1to5....
The only way to download ISO's is via bittorrent.
I don't mind running bittorrent, but I just downloaded the beta last week, and as I doubt there were a lot of changes, I think rsync against the old isos might use less bandwidth?
Terrel Shumway wrote:
A bittorent for CD binary iso files is available from: http://beta.centos.org/centos/4.0beta/isos/i386/CentOS-4.0.rc1-i386-bin1to5....
The only way to download ISO's is via bittorrent.
I don't mind running bittorrent, but I just downloaded the beta last week, and as I doubt there were a lot of changes, I think rsync against the old isos might use less bandwidth?
yes, rsync against the old ISO's will use much lesser bandwidth.
'yum upgrade' does a good job of moving you from Beta to RC1. However, keep in mind that there are a significant number of package changes.
Karanbir Singh wrote:
I don't mind running bittorrent, but I just downloaded the beta last week, and as I doubt there were a lot of changes, I think rsync against the old isos might use less bandwidth?
yes, rsync against the old ISO's will use much lesser bandwidth.
I don't know about that, I've done xdelta's of only minorly changed ISOs and they can be quite a large size difference. Although I'd like to take an additional crack at it with xdelta3 (xdelta uses a similar approach to rsync)
Someone with both ISOs should run an xdelta for us and see how small a diff/xdelta could be generated.
-Mike
yes, rsync against the old ISO's will use much lesser bandwidth.
If I can rsync and get the changes with just a little bandwidth, that will leave that much more left over for me to run bittorrent and get the ISOs to people who don't have them.
'yum upgrade' does a good job of moving you from Beta to RC1. However, keep in mind that there are a significant number of package changes.
But my goal is to help distribute the CDs not just update one machine.
I installed some time this month/end of last month and I just did an apt-get upgrade... it wants to download 748 megs so be ready to update A LOT.
I don't mind running bittorrent, but I just downloaded the beta last week, and as I doubt there were a lot of changes, I think rsync against the old isos might use less bandwidth? _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@caosity.org http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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