Todd Lyons wrote:
> Paulo Ara?jo wrote on Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 11:54:06AM +0100 :
>
>>Hello all,
>>
>>I've tried so far three (3) downloads of the "Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso"
>>from different mirrors, and the corresponding md5sums.90, but I allways get
>>a different md5sum for the iso.
>
>
> Use rsync instead of ftp. I suspect you are getting some funky errors
> due to trans-oceanic voyage of your packets. rsync does an md5sum on
> the data as it's being transferred. You just have to find a mirror that
> you could use rsync to get the isos at a reasonable transfer rate (then
> again, a slow steady accurate transfer would be advisable to a fast one
> that fails the md5sum :)
Also, he should use rsync to download on top of his existing download.
This way rsync only downloads the necessary changes.
But the original download must be recognisable to rsync, which is fussy
<g>. This can be achieved by running fmirror -R on it to change the
timestamp, provided the file lengths on server and local are exactly
identical. He may also need '-t timefuzz' depending on his timezone.
If the lengths are not identical try --partial with rsync to still get
an update download.
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