jigdo checksum error

[Terry Hancock]

Hi,

I'm trying out jigdo to retrieve a Debian 3.0r0 CD image
set, and after quite a long download, I get a checksum
error.  Is there any way to fix this short of starting
the whole process from scratch? (I really hope so).

I used http.us.debian.org to get the .jigdo file, and
mirrors.kernel.org as the Debian Mirror site. Both
are listed as Push-Primary mirrors on the Debian
site ( http://www.debian.org/mirror/list-full ).

I originally tried using http.us.debian.org for both,
but this seemed to be very slow (perhaps this mirror
restricts bandwidth or is simply very busy?).  I also
tried using mirrors.kernel.org for both, but it doesn't
seem to have the jigdo files (or not in the same place
anyway).

I have downloaded other CD ISO images through my connection
before, and they don't take this long, so the claim
that jigdo is faster doesn't seem to hold true (though
I can see that it might be a big help to the servers, 
which is sufficient justification for it).

Basically, I'd like to ask if I'm doing this right --
is it okay (preferred? discouraged?) to use two different
push-primary mirrors like this?  Also, is the slow download
simply to be expected, or the result of some error I'm
making.  Why would I get a bad checksum? Simply corrupted
files, or is there a chance that I'm somehow getting the
*wrong* files?

Thanks for any advice you might be able to offer,
Terry

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Re: jigdo checksum error

[Bijan Soleymani]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 12:04:38PM -0700, Terry Hancock wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I'm trying out jigdo to retrieve a Debian 3.0r0 CD image
 set, and after quite a long download, I get a checksum
 error.  Is there any way to fix this short of starting
 the whole process from scratch? (I really hope so).
 

What may have happened is that one or two files
may have not been found on the server you were
using.

What you can do is retry it with a different server
but also specify a location where files can be found
locally. In your case that would be the actual partial
iso on your hard disk. Jigdo would then look through the
iso and pick all the files that were there then download
only the missing files.

I believe the jigdo-lite script automatically
asks for a location to search for files. So that
would probably be the easiest way to do it.

Bijan


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