RE: [WBEL-users] Announcing the availability of White Box EnterpriseLinux 3.0 Respin 2

<[email protected]> Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:18:36 +1000
Newsgroups gmane.linux.whitebox.user,gmane.linux.whitebox.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I seem to be having problems with disk 1 ISO as downloaded from more
than one site. The md5 sum doesn't match. The other 2 are fine. Anybody
else seeing this?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Morris
> Sent: Tuesday, 15 March 2005 6:03 AM
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]; 
> [email protected]
> Subject: [WBEL-users] Announcing the availability of White 
> Box EnterpriseLinux 3.0 Respin 2
> 
> 
> White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 Respin 2 is now available.  
> This release
> is purely a maintenance release to pick up the accumulated 
> errata since
> Respin 1 in June '04.  It includes all errata issued from upstream
> through the end of Feb 05. with the exception of the kernel.  
> The kernel
> is the older one issued with Red Hat, Inc.'s Update 4 so that binary
> driver discs made available by 3rd party hardware vendors should be
> compatible with this rebuild release.
> 
> The graphical bootsplash in the installer is gone due to a 
> lack of space
> on the boot floppy image.  Apparently Anaconda can't leave it 
> off of the
> floppy and include it on the isolinux image, it is an all or nothing
> thing.
> 
> The only new innovation in this release is that DVD iso images are
> available.  To reduce the footprint on the mirrors the DVD images are
> only available via BitTorrent.
> 
> Note: The mirrors are currently still in the process of syncing up but
> two already show the i386 binary iso images available and more should
> appear in the next couple of hours.  As soon as the rsync 
> traffic drops
> off some the BitTorrent seeds will crank up.  Most of the our 
> bandwidth
> available for BT will be allocated to the DVD images.
> 
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