[CentOS] Centos DVD image... for NON bittorrent users?

Lance Davis lance at centos.org
Fri Apr 27 22:31:38 UTC 2007


On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, John Summerfield wrote:

> Mark Snyder wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Dan Pritts wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 10:02:27PM +0200, Gernot Stocker wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> could someone (some mirror) please provide DVD isos of the Centos5 also 
>>>> via ftp/http. The bittorent ports on out network are blocked and at the 
>>>> moment I couldn't find any DVD isos for
>>>> "regular" download.
>>> 
>>> for future reference, any reasonable client should be able to configure 
>>> the port numbers.
>>> 
>>> danno
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>>> 
>> danno for your reference not all ISP's are reasonable.  I have a number of 
>> clients on "Managed Networks" who have no control over their ports.  You 
>> should be more tolerant and open to others problems
>
> It seems to me that it's not reasonable to mess around with a business' 
> firewall to use BT, even where that business wants/needs CentOS.
>
>
> Other distros do create downloadable DVD-sized ISOs.

As does CentOS - and http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/isos/ will redirect 
you to a local list of mirrors when you click on an architecture , 
highlighting those that have dvd isos.

as in http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/5/isos/i386/

Mirrors that carry dvd iso images are also highlighted at

http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=13

Regards
Lance

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