-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 September 11, 2003 11:39 pm, Eric Huff wrote: > > Back in version 8 and 9 I had the exact same problem! It is the > > mirror you are using! I don't know why mirror sites continually get > > bad images, but it is true. Try an rsync to another site. > > So, does rsync help when it is all one file?
I've always found that it does. I'm an impatient old fart so I'd rather run rsync for 20 to 45 minutes per disk than 4 or 5 times as long. :-) However it only helps if you already have a very ISO to begin with. For the Mandrake 9.2 RC2 ISOs I actually used old beta2 images and renamed them. If you were doing Red Hat you'd use older Red Hat images, Knoppix 3.1 renamed 3.2, and so on. Otherwise you probably won't gain anything since there would be far too much difference between the renamed file and the actual ISO you wanted. Not enough similarity to gain much on the download via ftp versus rsync I mean. To Lorne; I can't see the mirror being the problem, it's the one I sync my local cooker tree from. Sometimes I have a major slow down and a few times the connection seems to have dropped totally but it's fairly reliable. If Gary was getting incorrect md5sums from the downloads something else was likely the problem. I've used that exact method for two years now and had a hell of a lot less trouble than any other way. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-7mdk 00:07:55 up 10:26, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.14, 0.14 The master programmer moves from program to program without fear. No change in management can harm him. He will not be fired, even if the project is canceled. Why is this? He is filled with the Tao. -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/YWW6G11CaRuZZSIRAkuVAJ9hmagoCqCFe49+Zvqk0B/YcJeYKACglPKe Biu4LyrXDfTVhR7egD2zeGM= =+5qj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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