[CentOS-mirror] Status of dvd iso for CentOS mirrors.

[archive-admin at mirrorservice.org]

on
http://isoredirect.centos.org/mirrorscripts/chooseisolist.pl?release=5.0&arch=i386
where not shown as having the dvdimages but we do(mirrorservice.org (GB) )
available via ftp...

http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org/5.0/isos-dvd/

etc..

Thanks.

Phill.


On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, Lance Davis wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, Kevin M Stange wrote:
>
> > Lance Davis wrote:
> >>
> >> With the release of 5 we have seen a tremendous increase in the use of
> >> the dvd.iso , so that from bitorrent it is now downloaded 5 times more
> >> than the cd isos.
> >
> > For a while there, we were the only mirror showing DVDs on the CentOS
> > site.  We had to throttle our bandwidth because we were pushing as much
> > as 350 Mbps, mostly in DVD ISOs.  Things have calmed down a bit from
> > that high now.
>
> Phew - thanks for that - I think there are now 4 US mirrors shown carrying
> dvd isos - and we are pushing to get more ...
> >
> >> The main issue with having the dvd isos available from mirrors is that
> >> Apache < 2.2 running on 32 bit architecture wont display files larger
> >> than 2.0 GB , however CentOS 5 has Apache 2.2 with large file support so
> >> that problem will now start to go away - alternative is also to use
> >> lighttpd.
> >
> > Rebuilding the apr, apr-util, and httpd SRPMs from CentOS 5 or Fedora
> > Devel will work for CentOS 4.  Only catch, httpd includes an init script
> > which requires a new version of initscripts.  To work around it, you can
> > install the src RPM, then grab your old /etc/init.d/httpd and replace
> > /usr/src/redhat/SOURCE/httpd.init.  Then you can set the dependency to
> > require 7.93 of initscripts instead in the specfile and build.  That's
> > what we're doing currently.
> >
> aha
>
> Regards
> Lance
>
>
> > Kevin
> >
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> >
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