Brandon, Thanks for your comment! Yes, my explanation is not very clear, partially because I don't understand that point very well myself.
I think the text in issue is the second bullet under this: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/RsyncingALargeFileBeginner#Other_notes. The reference to "module" was something I found somewhere in the rsync documentation. As the bulleted paragraph states, I had to discover that this essentially meant "directory" (in my terms) and I had to play around a little to find the correct directory. I don't have time to play around right now, but should in order to clarify this. (And, IIUC, the site I was using is no longer a Mandrake mirror, so I cannot go back to that site to clarify things.) Part of the issue is that the directory must be specified relative to something. I think it is relative to something like the rsync working directory, which may be different than the ftp working directory. Thus the path you specify in an rsync command may need to be different than the path specified in an ftp command. (And I may be all wrong about this -- I was very confused at the time, and, clearly, still am.) If I had to take a flying leap at this point in time, I'd try deleting "/pub" from the path in your command -- that seems to be what I had to do at the carroll.cac.psu.edu site. If anybody can clarify this, it would be greatly appreciated, and I would be happy to revise the appropriate paragraphs on the WikiLearn page. (Or, since it is a wiki, you can register and revise them yourself.) regards, Randy Kramer Brandon Dorman wrote: > Ok, I got to 515mb this time on Beta3 CD 1 and it failed. So I went to > your page. I got stuck when it says about "must start with a module," > and I can't figure it out. Your explanation isn't the most clear, > sorry. > > my command right now is: > rsync -a -vvv --progress > ftp.orst.edu::/pub/mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-8.2beta3-CD1.i586.iso >MandrakeLinux-8.2beta3-CD1.i586.iso > > Just for info, the full path of the iso is: > ftp://ftp.orst.edu/pub/mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-8.2beta3-CD1.i586.iso > > I am su when doing this. Any comments? thanks. > > http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/RsyncingALargeFile.
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