Re: Debian CD-image
I too am having problems getting rsync to work for me. I like the idea
of only updating the changed parts of a file(s). I am on a "cable connection"
and often get 40 to 60 kbs.
I have SparcStation1's and Lx's so there is only Redhat and Debian.
I bought from LinuxCentral a set of CD's Release 2.1 and didn't get either
machine to work.
I was able to download the ISO image of 2.1_r2 from a site in the UK,
which is now password protected, and with these new images able to get
Debian working.
When 2.1_r4 was released I decided to give rsync a try. Rather than
download the files again I assumed the disks I have, r2 and r4m, would
only need updating.
I first tried using the CD's as my local directory. 10,000 warnings!
I copied the CD to a local hard drive, 10,000 warning the same "files not
found"
On investigation. the current binary-sparc-1.list downloaded from ftp.kernel.org
does not match the CD's (official ?). I am not sure if the rsync program
is case sensitive, but the CD's have all directories starting with Upper
Case, the file list lower case. The directories on the CD's show under
Main, Binary-a , Binary-s, and Disks-sp instead of Binary-all, Binary-sparc,
and Disks-sparc. When I tried "make-pseudo-image binary-sparc-1.list ftp://kernel.org/pub/mirrors/debian"
I just ended up downloading each and every file at a much slower pace than
a straight ftp to get the files. After about 4 tries each ending at about
50% completion and 6-8 hours each, always ending with an "Unexpected EOF"
message. I tried to download an ISO image. The checksum was bad but I burnt
it anyway as I expected most of the files would be ok and I coud use this
latest image (r4) to rsync from. Exact same problems as before. I realise
there is a translation tables throughout the CD that equates Binary-a to
binary-all etc, but I'm not sure rsync is using the translation tables.
I have read and tried to followed the instructions as best I can. I have
rsync v2.
Please help figure what I'm ( and perhaps others) are doing wrong.
Thanks
Peter Myers
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On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Ryan Rittenhouse wrote:
> I cannot get your cd-image maker program to work correctly. is there
> anywhere I can just download the cd-image? thanks
Yes, there is. Please refer to http://cdimage.debian.org/ .
(And if "your cd-image maker program"=="the Pseudo-Image Kit", I'd really
like
to hear exactly what went wrong.)
Regards,
Anne Bezemer
ISO Image????
To: debian-cd@lists.debian.org
Subject: ISO Image????
From: Hicks_Verdell@emc.com
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 11:15:03 -0500
1. If I spend the time to research downloading a cd-image of your
distribution then that means I want to download a CD image of your
distribution... NOT go through a wizard which may or may NOT let me download
the image. You need to realize that your wizard does not recognize all
situations. For instance I want to download the image at work and burn it to
a CD so that I can install it
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