On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Chuck Shirley wrote: > 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...
No, my luck was excellent, thanks to your help. Ten or fifteen minutes to fix the file, twenty minutes to burn the cd. And I never had to leave the command line. I think I'm in unix heaven. Thanks a million, Chuck! It was a thrill seeing it all come together. > 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 Did it, it checked out. Now I know what md5sum does and how to use it. Thanks again for the help. Dale
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