Re: Newbie struggling with Windows rsync to make Debian install CD
I tried the route you are taking but found it too much trouble. If your
labor
is worth anything it's easier to order the CD for $9 from lsl.com or some
other vendor.
If you prefer not to get a CD (maybe you don't have a CD drive) then another
way to install from the net is to create rescue and boot floppy disks using
rawwrite, boot Debian, and configure dselect to point to the ftp site to
pull down the rest automatically.
Sorry I don't know the answer to your question as asked. There error message
seems to indicate you are specifying the name of a file where a port number
(socket) is expected.
Cheers,
Robin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry Tuber" <tuberb@bellatlantic.net>
To: <rsync@us5.samba.org>; <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 10:21 AM
Subject: Newbie struggling with Windows rsync to make Debian install CD
> I am trying to get a first time debian install going, and concluded I
needed
> a copy of the latest stable potato. I am using the pseudo image kit for
> windows (from http://cdimage.debian.org/~costar/pseudo-image-kit/) to get
> the stuff for the CD image, since the linux box is not connected to the
> network yet. The download of the packages into the pseudo image went fine.
> However, when I try to transform it to the official image, I cannot get
> rsync to do anything other than give me a message:
>
> "failed to connect to (whichever site I try) - The descriptor is a file,
not
> a socket"
>
> When I try to see a directory of the rsync server to see if I have the
right
> path, I get the same error. Can't find any documentation for the Windows
> version that would help, or even tell me if it is a syntax problem or some
> other kind.
>
> The exact command I am using is as follows:
>
> rsync --verbose --progress --stats --block-size=8192
> saens.debian.org::debian-cd/2.2_rev2/i386/binary-i386-1.iso .
>
> which as far as I can tell is what the readme file says to do,
substituting
> a real site for the sample given. I have tried many variations on the site
> name and path, all with the same result.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Barry
>
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