On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Chuck Shirley wrote: > 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.
Sorry. I'd heard the term, but didn't quite realize what it meant. > 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. I downloaded it, but didn't know what to do with it. > Best of luck! > > -Chuck Thanks! I'll try this right now. Dale
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