Mandriva (ex Mandrake) LE2005 hits FTP mirrors

ulteus writes "Only three days after the announcement, the full installation tree of Mandriva Linux Limited Edition 2005 is publicly available on a number of FTP mirrors. It provide more than 10,000 installable packages in RPM, and all the sources. For the first time, an x86-64 version is also provided in addition to the i586 version. And besides all the new features, it will install on your Xbox!"

Comments

good times

[orufet]

Time for a massive download, an angry ISP, and a lot of waiting. Pizza and coke are on the way!

Limited?

[theridersofrohan]

Hmm, nothing says limited like public ftp...

Re:Cool, but -

[DrSkwid]

* Mandriva Club members' benefits

Mandriva Club is the users' club that entitles subscribers to privileged as well as discounted access to Mandriva's products.
Limited Edition 2005, including proprietary drivers and commercial applications, is available right now to Mandriva Club menbers through Bittorent and HTTP download. In addition, members can take advantage of a discount on the Mandriva Store price, in accordance with their level of membership. Of course, there's also all the other benefits of joining the Club.

torrent here

[bedessen]

Mandriva-Linux-2005-Ltd-Edition-DVD.i586.iso.torre nt (alternate link) (tracker) (details)

(this is not the official torrent, as that requires club membership.)

Re:torrent here

[theosnel]

and do you trust the guy that put it online? I can't find a md5-sum anywhere so I can't check the integrity of the iso. How do you know that this is the original disc?

Re:Cool, but -

[RobertLTux]

yep and the funny trick is the torrent file you get is linked to your IP address so if you have a disconnect and happen to get a new ip you need to do a full restart from zero. Somebody should get the file(s) and setup a torrent (just remember to keep the torrent going for a while after you have the whole thing) Im going to wait for the DVD to get online

Tips to upgrade

[InodoroPereyra]

If you have an older version installed, you can upgrade using urpmi. First add 10.2 sources from the control center. Then, you can upgrade everything from the software installer in the control center (select to see packages by upgrade availability). Or easier, as root from a console,

urpmi --auto-select --auto --no-verify-rpm

I used --no-verify-rpm because I selected PLF sources for 10.2 and the contrib packages, and some of them have wrong (or no) signatures.

Warning: there is an official/10.2/ branch in the ftp mirrors, do not use it. It is broken, and it broke my Mandrake 10.1. You have to use the "devel" branch from the ftp mirrors, as explained in Mandriva's announcement.

After fixing manually the mess I got from the "official" upgrade, I pointed urpmi to the "devel" branch and everything went 100% smooth. Mandriva 10.2 looks very solid, no huge changes from 10.1 but nice and 95% polished (there is a rough edge here or there, nothing serious).

One more thing, after upgrading, you can add the latest kernel from the software installer.

Re:Cool, but -

[Ricwot]

Any chance of a real mirror, I'm behind a firewall and would like to try this one out?

Re:Cool, but -

[loddington]

What are you on about? It doesnt delete what you have already downloaded. The only thing you loose is the upload to download ratio figures.

If you want the DVD now rather than waiting to leech from the public mirrors in a month join the mandriva club and download the full DVD (4gig) or download edition DVD (2.1gig).

easyurpmi

[dacarr]

The link for 10.2 does not yet appear on EasyURPMI. Might want to drop Trem a line and ask him to include your favorite mirror.

Re:easyurpmi

[wemgadge]

This has since been fixed. The link is listed as "2005" not 10.2 although once Mandriva is installed, the new version identifies itself as "Mandrakelinux release 10.2 (Limited Edition 2005)"

Re:Cool, but -

[DrSkwid]

lose not loose

you turn something loose to set it free

But Why?

[GnarlyNome]

did they pick a name like Mandribble..er Mandriva?

Re:But Why?

[dacarr]

Near as I can tell, it's a portmanteau of "Mandrake" and "Connectiva". Sort of like the old joke about FedEx and UPS merging to make FedUp.

Re:But Why?

[GnarlyNome]

There are a lot of comments over at Mandrake er Mandriva club ..mostly negative would be a gross understatement.