Re: ISO problems (rsync is silently exiting)

[mikpolniak <mikpolniak@adelphia.net>]

On Sun, 7 Jan 2001 01:46:48 -0800, Mark Symonds said:

> 
>  Hi, 
>  
>  Trying to make an ISO of potato on a windows 
>  box here.  Following the instructions, I ran
>  make-pseudo-image and now have a file called
>  binary-i386-1.iso in the directory which is 
>  634,220KB in size.  Finally, I am to patch 
>  this file to make the "Official" ISO.  Per
>  the instructions:
>  
>  c:\windows\desktop\debian> rsync --verbose --progress --stats --block-size=8192
>  rsync.kernel.org::debian-cd/2.2_rev2/i386/binary-i386-1.iso .
>  NOTE: THIS IS A MODIFIED VERSION OF RSYNC.
>  [...]
>  <motd from kernel.org here>
>  [...]
>  
>  .... and that's it.  The hdd goes wild for about five minutes, and then 
>  it silently drops me back to a prompt.  The pseudo-image is unchanged.
>  hrmm ... maybe it downloaded PERFECTLY?!  Try to burn it to a CD with 
>  Adaptec Easy CD Creator, "this is not a valid ISO".  md5sums don't 
>  match either.
>  
>  Any ideas?  
>  
	I did this a while back and what i remeber is that i had to
remove the block-size option to get rsync to work.