On Sunday 11 August 2002 07:31, Dale Huckeby wrote:
>
> When I try to move downloaded copies of CD2 I get input-output errors
>and if I try to burn a CD I get a coaster. I got good copies of the
>1st and 3rd CDs (bad copies first try at a Russian mirror) when I went
>to a mirror in Hawaii. I've tried three times to download a copy of
>CD2 that works and no luck so far. Is this normal?
>
>Dale Huckeby
Hi!
I have a couple of suggestions. The fisrt is a mattere if nettiquite.
When sending a message to a list such as this one, and it is not related
to another message, please send a _New_ message, rather than _Reply_-ing
or _Forward_-ing a message from the list, then changing the subject line.
The resason for this is that replying to a message takes some of the
header information from that message that the more featureful mail
readers use for threading messages, and it effectively "Breaks the
thread" It can be quite frustrating.
On to your problem. It is a good idea to check your iso filesytem
images for errors before you burn them. You can run `md5sum` on the
iso image file, for example. Compare this with the md5sum that
Mandrake has published for the image you are downloading. If they
are not the same, your image has some problems. If you have a
damaged iso image, clearly, downloading the whole thing will be a
huge pain due to it's size, so I reccommend just fixing the one you
have by re-synchronizing it using rsync, which will actually repair
the damaged image by compareing it with a presumed-good image on
a remote server using a rolling-dual-crc check of the file, and
transferring only the parts that are different. The mathematics
involved are quite clever, and it produces very good results. You
just need to find a server that you can get a good connection to and
that offers a public rsync service of the Mandrake iso images, and
you'll be off to the races. :^)
Something like: (sorry it's one long line...)
rsync -avP --progress --stats
rsync://ftp.proxad.net:873/mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-9.0beta2-CD*
/local/path/to-put-isos/
should do nicely, though you may have differnt luck...
That mirror also has some md5sum file called md5sums.9.0 in the same
directory as the iso images, you may want to get that as well, to do
the comparison before you turn your cds.
Best of luck!
-Chuck
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