Re: Zsync for ubuntu isos.

2008-03-09 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 7:51 PM, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, been seeing that for a few days. > MAIN (cdimage.ubuntu.com) is really heavy loaded, and rsync times out with > that lovely and totally CLEAR message. > I guess I should report that as a bug, so that future

Re: Zsync for ubuntu isos.

2008-03-09 Thread (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
On Sunday 09 March 2008 01:42:31 John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 7:24 AM, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just use rsync: > > rsync -zhP > > rsync://cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage/daily-live/current/hardy-desktop-i386.iso > > . > > That works. However, whe

Re: Zsync for ubuntu isos.

2008-03-08 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 7:24 AM, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just use rsync: > rsync -zhP > rsync://cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage/daily-live/current/hardy-desktop-i386.iso . That works. However, when I try to get the alpha-6 release, I get: $ rsync rsync://cdimage.ubuntu.com

Re: Zsync for ubuntu isos.

2008-03-07 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as I can see, zsync is rsync for when you can't actually use > rsync due to lack of server support. However, cdimage does support > rsync, so why not just use that directly? OK. I thought rsync was unpopular among

Re: Zsync for ubuntu isos.

2008-03-05 Thread (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
Just use rsync: rsync -zhP rsync://cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage/daily-live/current/hardy-desktop-i386.iso . -- BUGabundo :o) (``-_-´´) http://Ubuntu.BUGabundo.net Linux user #443786GPG key 1024D/A1784EBB My new micro-blog @ http://BUGabundo.net ps. My emails tend to sound authority and

Re: Zsync for ubuntu isos.

2008-03-03 Thread Colin Watson
[Reposting my reply from [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 08:45:44PM +0900, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > Zsyncing ubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386.iso to xubuntu saves ~63% of > bandwidth over downloading the xubuntu.iso directly. Zsyncing 7.10 to > Hardy alpha-4 saves ~14% of bandwidth; presum