Re: rsyncing images
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
> 10 Megs, I thought it might be the CD specific stuff, just the docs that
> claims "6 Megs" should be updated, saying at least "6 to 10 Megs", and
> possibly mentioning that it is mostly in the first part of the image,
> otherwise it does give the false impression that the whole image is
> being downloaded. Just an idea.
And an excellent idea, too.
> I did put the pseudo image kit to the test... throwing mirrors at it
> that refused my connection, or were terribly incomplete, in no
> particular order... I'll start from scratch on the first image.
BTW, it's usually needed to run twice for the 1_NONUS image, because most
servers don't have non-US in the place the .list file wants to have it;
however that should be fine since all non-US is nicely clustered together.
> I've resumed the second image download. (I stopped it at 8 megs, just
> after backing up the temp file, and adding it to the end of the pseudo
> image...)
>
> > I surely hope not ;-) But if interesting things happen, please post a
> report.
>
> I'll redo the first image. The second one works perfectly. Skipped first
> 9 Megs, downloaded two to three megs, then started skipping most of it.
Ah, that's at least behaving nicely.
Well then, Groeten uit Holland ;-)
Anne Bezemer
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