More mirror stuff...

Mark Street, D.C. jet at sonic.net
Fri Oct 26 22:30:54 PDT 2001


I tried this too, redcarpet just overwrote my entry on the next start. : |
I like the Duke mirror.....and now the nblug mirror!

My mirrors.xml file is in /var/cache/redcarpet/

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Eric Eisenhart wrote: 
> For those of you that use the Ximian GNOME distribution and use Red Carpet,
> I discovered something quite nice...
> 
> I've only tried this on a Red Hat 7.1 (i386) machine, but this should work
> the same on debian-potato-i386 and redhat-62-i386, AFAIK.
> 
> Edit /var/lib/redcarpet/mirrors.xml
> Place this in it:
> <mirror
>         name="North Bay Linux Users Group"
>         location="Santa Rosa, CA, USA"
>         url="http://mirror.nblug.org/Ximian/"
> />
> 
> (someplace in between the others that look kinda like that)
> 
> Go to Settings/Preferences/Mirror and select the North Bay Linux Users Group
> mirror.  Click OK.  You might want to exit red-carpet and start it up again
> to see if everything works right.
> 
> I get almost 80KB/s which is *far* better than the 4KB/s I was getting with
> the default Ximian mirror.



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