woody 3.0r2 MD5SUMs and rescue CD
I have just downloaded "woody" 3.0r2 using jigdo and I have two questions...
1) When I run md5sum -c md5sum.txt on disc 1 (NONUS) I get the following
errors:
md5sum: WARNING: 1675 of 3784 listed files could not be read
md5sum: WARNING: 53 of 2109 computed checksums did NOT match
Upon closer inspection, (I did not check all 1728 problem files), it appears
that there are a number of 0 length files and missing directories.
My first thought was that the CD creation process failed, but I found an
email in the debian-cd archives
(http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2004/debian-cd-200401/msg00089.html) in
which somebody else described the same problem. Unfortunately, there was no
(public) reply to the email, so I don't know the resolution.
FWIW, I downloaded the non-non-US CD first, then read the FAQ, realized that
I really wanted the NON-US version, reran jigdo, told it to scan the
non-non-US CD so I wouldn't have to redownload _everything_, and proceeded
from there.
Also, FWIW, I am running the cygwin version of MD5SUM on a windows box.
Given all of this irrelevant information (:-)), is this behavior to be
expected? Has anybody else downloaded the non-US CD and run MD5SUM?
2) And now, for question 2...
Do the installation CDs support a "rescue" mode that can be used to operate
on a workstation with a severely damaged root partition? It seems that when
I try to boot the "rescue" image, it wants me to specify a root partition on
my HD? What happens when that partition has been so severely trashed that
all I want to do is to run fsck on it and recover whatever I can?
Thanks for any help.
--wpd
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