I agree. 10.5.1 worked flawlessly on my system until "I" caused it to purposely crash, because of Zephyroth's next release that is currently being uploaded .

you don't mind sharing your account information with us, right? I can give you can e-mail address to PM too, you know. :D

I'm also new into this, just like you but here is my little "tutorial" to get things working (PC users only, don't know about MAC users)

1 - Download one program called GrabIt at "http://www.shemes.com"
2 - Go to "http://astinews.de/xtest" and put your e-mail there to receive an server username and pass to connect to usenet (it is a free account but will do the job)
3 - Check your e-mail and take note of your Reader, Username and Password that you received from astinews
4 - Install GrabIt and use the infos from astinews to start usenet
5 - Inside GrabIt, go to GrabIt Usenet Search and search for "alt.binaries.mac.cd-images" and add it to your list...
6 - After that, still in GrabIt go to Articles and at the end of the list you'll see the files to download... just right click them and "Grab Selected Articles"

If you have questions, go to mIRC... There you'll find a lot of good people that helped me with all this...

Thanks, by the way, what is your current download speed?

Oh shoot. let me try that right now, thanks.

Tutorial for Mac:

1. Download Unison (http://www.panic.com/unison/)
2. Go to "http://astinews.de/xtest" and sign up for a Free Account
3. Check your E-Mail
4. Install Unison and enter the Login information that you received to your E-Mail by Astinews
5. Search for the Newsgroup "alt.binaries.mac.cd-images" and add it
6. Search for the files by zephyroth and start downloading :)

You know I can't be sure exactly (can't locate an indicator)

FAST though.

I just got another 50mb chunk in less than 1 minute.

I have an account for usenet, so is this uploaded on usenet

Grabit Says that I have reached my search limit(s) for the day. What's up with that? Any other alternative available?

yes it is

Is Zephyroth's 10.5.2 for AMD released yet? If so where can I download it? thepiratebay.org?

Check the Announcement at the Front Page of the Forums.

If you want to download via torrent you'll have to wait a little more... If you want it in the next 10 hours (more or less) you must try usenet

Torrents shouldn't take that long. I'm on an OC192 and am willing to seed...

It took me about 10 minutes to download the first 23 parts using Usenet. ;)

can somebody please make an account for me? i made a new email called [email protected] if somebody can please place my email address in http://astinews.de/xtest and have my info emailed to me that would greatly appreciate it. This is because I have used my daily limit in grabit with my existing account, and thus, need a new one. thanks,.

winlinmac your ip was logged, i think there is no use to make another account

whoever, added my email, thank you very much. as you know this is not my real email, LOL

I got him one. Hurry up and get this on the bay, i've got enough upload bandwidth to host a small country

oh darn. Any other alternative besides grabit?

is there another alternative besides grabit?

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=de-de&q=windows+usenet+clients&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

yay i figured it out using Unison from www.panic.com same people that make Candybar, best of all its Free!

Puttabong ( or whoever )
Do you think Zephyroth's 10.5.2 will work on my computer?
Will it work on my laptop?
My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite A215-S4767,
it has 2 gb ram,
AMD turion 64x2 Dual Core Mobile Technology,
250 gb HDD + 80 gb HDD (external),
ATI Radeon X1200,
54g Atherols Wi-Fi (802.11b/g); 10/100 Ethernet; 4 USB, 1 FireWire, 1 VGA,
1 S-Video, 1 ExpressCard 34/54. 5-in-1 memory card reader,
Realtek High Definition Audio ALC268

newsrover found it near the dock 'O the bay

newsbin I tried, but not all of the results were displayed. some lagging

Looks like my news server is up to part 28, but I still can't find a newsreader that'll do yEnc and stay connected to my server...

cgsheen can you confirm if the first file is 28mb?

Xnews is free and I am downloading

why is part 29 12mb only?

i'm using newsbin, but don't know where the 29 files are downloading, lol. help please if possible, thanks

I am totally confused. Where's an Idiot's guide to usenet when you need one. Lol.

I created an account in http://astinews.de/xtest. I then download a bunch of programs like Newsbin Pro, UsenetGrab, Binjet, and Grabit. Couldn't get any program to work with it. I then found a free newserver called Dissenter (http://www.disenter.com) and I couldn't get any program to work with that as welll. I know I am doing something wrong, so if anyone out there has anything for me I would really appreciate it. If not, I will just have to wait for the torrents (something I can actually download :) And if some people think that I am just writing this because I am too lazy to look this up, I am not, I have looked for this for about 3 hrs.

Thanks, A lot to everyone and thanks goes to you Zeph for finishing your masterpiece.

UPDATE: 30 parts are uploaded thus far in total
where are my files downloaded? to what directory?

there should be a default folder they are saved to, by the newsreader prog. I have tried 3 so far and grabit it haulinass it is much easier than the others

Please dont think I can help, I am flying by the seat of my pants as the rest of you are, I mean I just got used to using torrent clients lolol

30 parts buddy

ZEPHYORTH, can you also list the file sizes for each part as you upload them? I just to make sure that I am downloading the actual file(S). THanxs or if someone else wants to help please do so. :D

no prob...download is pretty fast, should make an iso and upload as well LOL

so you found where it saved the files?

Files are 50M each.

I am just wondering is the Nforce driver included in this release as i didn't see it noted in the announce.

Zephyroth thank you very much for the hard work you are doing.

im usin grabit downloading at 448 KB/s i have downloaded parts 1-27,30-33. but rar files 28-29 don't show up when i load the group articles. whats goin on? any help would be great. i update the group as well so i don't know whatsup.

35

They're made up of 152 "messages" which are each about 325KB. So one "part" of the .rar (archive) is about 50MB. Your newsreader holds the "files". Some newsreaders combine and decode the messages automatically and save the "attachments" as files. Sometimes you have to do that manually once the newsreader has downloaded all the messages that belong to a certain "part". In the end the newsreader should have all the individual .rar files that made up the upload. You then use an unarchiver to assemble the .rar's and build the .iso file inside them...

really? I have some files that are 25, and some that are as low as 11.67 and high as 53. Is there something wrong? I have not figured where the files are being saved yet.

open grabit preferences and you'll find were are your downloaded files...

so i have to compile the .rar files into an iso. or is there a .iso extracted from the rars?

braindead803, the iso can be extracted from the rar parts.

@Puttabong i gotta question. i got all the recent rar files but 28+29 what happened to those? I have updated the group and everything the articles will not show 28+29 so whats up?

Well this is good news...Ill sit back and wait for a torrent- i got 10.5.2 installed with graphics update / efi/ 9.2.0 kernel/ itunes fix, and everything is just great! so im in no hurry to start over, lol...

@WinLinMac
I doubt that's correct. The tools that most people use to create the ".rar" parts and carve everything up & yEnc them in a suitable fashion to be uploaded properly and consistently to newsgroup messages are pretty consistent. Just looking at the messages, they all seem pretty close to the same size and every "part" consists of 152 messages. All the "...partxxx.rar" 's should be pretty much the same size.

anybody with the files 28 and 29?

yes anyone with files 28/29