how to download F18 with rsync

Robert Arkiletian robark at gmail.com
Sat Dec 1 06:42:26 UTC 2012


On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Robert Arkiletian <robark at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Matthew Miller
> <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 09:55:41PM -0800, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
>>> Trying to dl F18 beta. Public mirror list shows which mirrors support
>>> rsync. But I don't know  how to find dir path to iso. Hovering mouse
>>> over rsync link doesn't show full path to iso.
>>
>> That's browser-specific, I think. I'm seeing the full URL in Firefox. But,
>> in any case you should be able to right click and choose "copy link
>> location" (or the equivalent in whatever browser you are using).
>>
>> That won't give you the whole path, though, if you're looking at the same
>> mirror page I am. Try
>>
>> rsync -Pv rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/test/18-Beta/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-18-Beta-x86_64-DVD.iso .
>>
>>
> Using chrome.
> I usually use the ftp site to find the correct path to use with rsync.
> Kernel.org has the same dir structure for ftp and rsync so it's easy
> but some others like Nexicom don't. Any other way to find the path.
>

Never mind. Nexicom seems to use same dir structure as kernel.org.
Thanks for the help.


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Robert Arkiletian
Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada


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