> > > I have already downloaded
> > > the two images odyssey-rc-inst.iso
> > > and odyssey-rc-ext.iso
> > Then use rsync to update them. Just change the names of your iso
> > files to those of the final and run an rsync (rsync -rltvP --stats)
> > update, then check the md5 sums.
> > rsync in this mode will use its famous algorithm to detect the
> > differences, download them, and quickly patch them in.
> when i do this on a modem link and bt drop the line on a regular 2hr
> basis, the rsync finished due to having a timeout set, and the iso
> file got severely chopped to about the 45Mb-60Mb area.
> then on the subsequent sessions, it spends increasing lengths of time
> figuring out where it got to and resume at the plod of 5k/s area
> (on a good day)
> either i've got something wrong, extracted the core of script posted to
> cooker list a few days ago, used by someone in same situation.
> aux prog (ppp monitoring...) references deleted.
I get exactly the same happening on a modem link with timeout. One
alternative (only possible if you have plenty of disk space to spare) is
to use rsync to grab the 7.2 tree (rather than the iso), then build the
ISOs yourself.
For downloading ISO images via modem, the best tool that I know of is
wget with the --continue option. It takes about 2.5 days, but once it's
started it will run without further attention.
Michael
