Swimming in the Pensieve

There has been some whining in the corridors, relative to some minor release date slips, but you can get your simplyMEPIS 6.0 Final release very easily…despite the fact that some of the mirrors haven’t sync-ed yet, and others are running at lower than optimum bandwidth.
Get it. Burn it. Install it. Have fun.

example.user@example.host[SimplyMEPIS_6.0-final]$ wget -c ftp://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/MEPIS/SimplyMEPIS_6.0_i386.md5sum
--15:16:27--  ftp://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/MEPIS/SimplyMEPIS_6.0_i386.md5sum
=> `SimplyMEPIS_6.0_i386.md5sum'
Resolving mirror.cs.vt.edu... 128.173.40.38
Connecting to mirror.cs.vt.edu[128.173.40.38]:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD /pub/MEPIS ... done.
==> PASV ... done.    ==> RETR SimplyMEPIS_6.0_i386.md5sum ... done.
Length: 59 (unauthoritative)

100%[==============================================================================================>] 59            --.--K/s

15:16:28 (89.47 KB/s) - `SimplyMEPIS_6.0_i386.md5sum' saved [59]

example.user@example.host[SimplyMEPIS_6.0-final]$ wget -c ftp://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/MEPIS/SimplyMEPIS_6.0_i386.iso
--15:16:48--  ftp://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/MEPIS/SimplyMEPIS_6.0_i386.iso
=> `SimplyMEPIS_6.0_i386.iso'
Resolving mirror.cs.vt.edu... 128.173.40.38
Connecting to mirror.cs.vt.edu[128.173.40.38]:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD /pub/MEPIS ... done.
==> PASV ... done.    ==> RETR SimplyMEPIS_6.0_i386.iso ... done.
Length: 723,138,560 (unauthoritative)

97% [===========================================================================================>   ] 706,874,336  187.28K/s    ETA 01:26

16:34:15 (184.29 KB/s) - Data connection: Connection timed out; Control connection closed.
Retrying.

--16:49:16--  ftp://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/MEPIS/SimplyMEPIS_6.0_i386.iso
(try: 2) => `SimplyMEPIS_6.0_i386.iso'
Connecting to mirror.cs.vt.edu[128.173.40.38]:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD /pub/MEPIS ... done.
==> SIZE SimplyMEPIS_6.0_i386.iso ... done.
==> PASV ... done.    ==> REST 706874336 ... done.
==> RETR SimplyMEPIS_6.0_i386.iso ... done.
Length: 723,138,560 [16,264,224 to go]

100%[++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++==>] 723,138,560  187.22K/s    ETA 00:00

16:50:44 (185.91 KB/s) - `SimplyMEPIS_6.0_i386.iso' saved [723138560]

example.user@example.host[SimplyMEPIS_6.0-final]$ cat SimplyMEPIS_6.0_i386.md5sum
f53d134974db0d24aa97925e3707ab4c  SimplyMEPIS_6.0_i386.iso
example.user@example.host[SimplyMEPIS_6.0-final]$ md5sum SimplyMEPIS_6.0_i386.iso
f53d134974db0d24aa97925e3707ab4c  SimplyMEPIS_6.0_i386.iso
example.user@example.host[SimplyMEPIS_6.0-final]$  cdrecord -V -dao -eject speed=32 dev=1,5,0 driveropts=burnfree -overburn /home/example.user/isos/distros/SimplyMEPIS_6.0-final/SimplyMEPIS_6.0_i386.iso