Re: RSYNC issues
null <farmbooy@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> I am confused. It seems rsync is just a verifing program written to
> make everyone who wants an "Official CD". I downloaded (on a Windows
> machine) an ISO from debian
> (saen.debian.org::debian-cd/2.2_rev0/i386/binary-1386-1.iso) and tried
> burning it directly with Adaptec EZcd creator. As you can imagine it
> bombed. Cant find sector error. So I thought "Oh I must need to RSYNC
> it to get it up to snuff". When ever I run RSYNC against it it is like
> tring to download the entire CD again. I thought it was just a
> verifier?
>
> Could you please tell me what I am doing wrong? The Readme that came
> with the file made it sound as though the RSYNC would not use much band
> width: "...You can therefore very well use a slow 56k modem connection
> without noticing grave slowdowns. The RSYNC will only take about 20
> minutes."
Probably your image is totally bogus.
rsync verifies and repairs the files, so the more is different the
more gets downloaded.
MfG
Goswin
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