Mike & Tracy Holt wrote:
> I'm sorry, I should have been more specific; the reason I mirrored from
> Mandrake-devel/7.2beta/i586/Mandrake/ was because I d/l'd hd.img separately
> and didn't feel I needed the other directories (dosutils, etc). I did find
> something that I managed to overlook the first time around however; I check
> the 'RPMS' folder and the 'base' folder - they seemed fine, but for some
> reason the 'mdkinst' folder did not get populated during the mirroring.
> When I get home from work tonight, I'm going to start over. Any idea of a
> better way to make sure I get all the files I need? (Besides ISO which for
> some reason hasn't shown up yet).
Yes, read my web page on the subject and if you only want English
English download the tools:
http://members.optushome.com.au/ronst/
There are many happy users on this mailing list.
Speedup will be about 12,000 times what wget will do because it uses
rsync with a custom-written perl prepass that will upname files that
match except for version and patch level - this is to make rsync
match the files and download only the differences and patch them in,
rather than literally downloading the whole file which it would
otherwise do because the name is different.
Speedup is further enhanced because all the locale files except en
(UK) are not even downloaded. Using ./no_rsync.pl, a 7.2 beta
download is currently 921 MB.
Before running rsync, you should update the timestamps of all your
local downloaded files to match those on the server, plus or minus
your and its timezone. Otherwise rsync will download them all over
again because name, size, and timestamp do not match. Local
timestamp adjustment is done for you by an option of anonymous
fmirror:
fmirror -R -s<server> -r<remote directory/> -l<local directory/>
Read man fmirror. wget and most copy utilities do NOT preserve the
timestamps. rsync and fmirror have that ability, and depend on it.
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Regards,
Ron. [AU]
