On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Todd Lyons wrote: > 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 :)
How compressible are the Mandrake ISOs? I wonder if there's a way to compare subsections of an ISO image and just re-transfer the bad portions. This could maybe be done with split and md5sum tricks. Or does rsync do this automatically?
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