I'm trying to create iso disks for fedora core 3 i386. So far I have 3 coasters, two that won't boot and one that boots up, but is corrupt. Is there a better way to do this? I've downloaded the isos directly from redhat and I've used two different computers to do the CD burning. Is there a way I can get the needed info over the newtork directly onto the machine itself for a new install...maybe using the rescue CD?
Anne
Anne Ramey wrote:
I'm trying to create iso disks for fedora core 3 i386. So far I have 3 coasters, two that won't boot and one that boots up, but is corrupt. Is there a better way to do this? I've downloaded the isos directly from redhat and I've used two different computers to do the CD burning. Is there a way I can get the needed info over the newtork directly onto the machine itself for a new install...maybe using the rescue CD?
Anne
To install via http boot using the rescue or boot.iso cds on the command line type linux askmethod then choose http method and give the cerver name and directory
for example download.fedora.com (as name) pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os (as a dir)
and follow as usual installations
To install via http boot using the rescue or boot.iso cds on the command line type linux askmethod then choose http method and give the cerver name and directory
for example download.fedora.com (as name) pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os (as a dir)
and follow as usual installations
This worked like a charm. Thanks.
Anne
Anne Ramey wrote:
I'm trying to create iso disks for fedora core 3 i386. So far I have 3 coasters, two that won't boot and one that boots up, but is corrupt. Is there a better way to do this? I've downloaded the isos directly from redhat and I've used two different computers to do the CD burning. Is there a way I can get the needed info over the newtork directly onto the machine itself for a new install...maybe using the rescue CD?
Anne
Hello Anne,
1) When you downloaded the files did you verify the MD5 sums? 2) What OS and application are you using to do the burn? 3) Have you checked the "failed" bootable disks on another machine to confirm their coaster status?
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 04:59:59PM -0500, Anne Ramey wrote:
I'm trying to create iso disks for fedora core 3 i386. So far I have 3 coasters, two that won't boot and one that boots up, but is corrupt. Is there a better way to do this? I've downloaded the isos directly from redhat and I've used two different computers to do the CD burning. Is there a way I can get the needed info over the newtork directly onto the machine itself for a new install...maybe using the rescue CD?
Since you have the ISOs, assuming they validate (md5sum, isovfy), you might as well set them up as a local repository and go from there. Burn the rescue CD, nd install over NFS (faster, so preferred) or HTTP/FTP.
http://www.charlescurley.com/yum.html
On 1/25/06, Anne Ramey anner@blast.com wrote:
I'm trying to create iso disks for fedora core 3 i386. So far I have 3 coasters, two that won't boot and one that boots up, but is corrupt. Is there a better way to do this? I've downloaded the isos directly from redhat and I've used two different computers to do the CD burning. Is there a way I can get the needed info over the newtork directly onto the machine itself for a new install...maybe using the rescue CD?
Anne
Did you turn off dma for your CDROM drive during the media test? If not add "ide=nodma" to the grub boot command line.
Anne Ramey wrote:
I'm trying to create iso disks for fedora core 3 i386. So far I have 3 coasters, two that won't boot and one that boots up, but is corrupt. Is there a better way to do this? I've downloaded the isos directly from redhat and I've used two different computers to do the CD burning. Is there a way I can get the needed info over the newtork directly onto the machine itself for a new install...maybe using the rescue CD?
Anne
Interesting. I tried to download Fedora, but only the first iso came through completely, the other three stopped somewhere close to the end of the download just before full download was reported in the download manager. I tried to pause and resume to see if this would make them go the last mile, but they stayed frozen. Therefore I have not burned the CD's, I did not expect that any success would come from an incomplete download. I downloaded in Mozilla Firefox, and as far as I know that should not be a problem. Maybe this is your problem, a close to- but no complete download? Does anybody know if this may be mirror related? I just used the download page on the Fedora website. Does anyone know where I could get a complete download?
Brgds Per-Anton
At 07:58 26/01/2006, you wrote:
Anne Ramey wrote: Interesting. I tried to download Fedora, but only the first iso came through completely, the other three stopped somewhere close to the end of the download just before full download was reported in the download manager. I tried to pause and resume to see if this would make them go the last mile, but they stayed frozen. Therefore I have not burned the CD's, I did not expect that any success would come from an incomplete download. I downloaded in Mozilla Firefox, and as far as I know that should not be a problem. Maybe this is your problem, a close to- but no complete download? Does anybody know if this may be mirror related? I just used the download page on the Fedora website. Does anyone know where I could get a complete download?
Brgds Per-Anton
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I've found that it's far better to use bit torrent. I used the information and torrent files here
http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
to download FC5t2 but FC4 is available here too.
My service went down loads of times because the ISP was fooling around doing upgrades all weekend, so I had to keep resetting the router to get it going again. But sha1sum said that all the files were OK.
Dave F
David Fletcher wrote:
I've found that it's far better to use bit torrent. I used the information and torrent files here
http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
to download FC5t2 but FC4 is available here too.
My service went down loads of times because the ISP was fooling around doing upgrades all weekend, so I had to keep resetting the router to get it going again. But sha1sum said that all the files were OK.
You can also use bittorrent (or rsync) to "repair" an existing partially-downloaded ISO, which will probably be quicker than starting the download again.
Paul.
David Fletcher wrote:
I've found that it's far better to use bit torrent. I used the information and torrent files here
I've got a problem with opening up my machine for other people's use.
I find that wget works great.
[snip]
Mike
On 1/26/06, Mike McCarty mike.mccarty@sbcglobal.net wrote:
David Fletcher wrote:
I've found that it's far better to use bit torrent. I used the information and torrent files here
I've got a problem with opening up my machine for other people's use.
I find that wget works great.
haha! Not even interested in sharing Free software, eh? And BitTorrent is such a hacker's paradise, too. haha!
Hint: throttle the outgoing bandwidth if it's that big a deal.
-- Chris
"I trust the Democrats to take away my money, which I can afford. I trust the Republicans to take away my freedom, which I cannot."
2006/1/29, Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.bell@gmail.com:
On 1/26/06, Mike McCarty mike.mccarty@sbcglobal.net wrote:
David Fletcher wrote:
I've found that it's far better to use bit torrent. I used the information and torrent files here
I've got a problem with opening up my machine for other people's use.
I find that wget works great.
haha! Not even interested in sharing Free software, eh? And BitTorrent is such a hacker's paradise, too. haha!
Hint: throttle the outgoing bandwidth if it's that big a deal.
-- Chris
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bittorrent prevents corrupting in the first place. even various wgetters already been happy when bittorrent can "repair" a corrupt <insert_downloadtool_here> attempt ;)
regards, Rudolf Kastl
Christofer C. Bell wrote:
On 1/26/06, Mike McCarty mike.mccarty@sbcglobal.net wrote:
David Fletcher wrote:
I've found that it's far better to use bit torrent. I used the information and torrent files here
I've got a problem with opening up my machine for other people's use.
I find that wget works great.
haha! Not even interested in sharing Free software, eh? And BitTorrent is such a hacker's paradise, too. haha!
I have my machine stealthed to help prevent being cracked. If you have no problems with people attempting to get into your machine, then fine. I do.
Hint: throttle the outgoing bandwidth if it's that big a deal.
Bandwidth is not the problem.
Mike
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 08:58 +0100, Per-Anton Rønning wrote:
Interesting. I tried to download Fedora, but only the first iso came through completely, the other three stopped somewhere close to the end of the download just before full download was reported in the download manager. I tried to pause and resume to see if this would make them go the last mile, but they stayed frozen. Therefore I have not burned the CD's, I did not expect that any success would come from an incomplete download.
I wouldn't expect them to work, either.
I downloaded in Mozilla Firefox, and as far as I know that should not be a problem.
I think the pause/resume feature that Firefox purports to offer does not work. I've never seen it resume a download, even on servers that I know support it. I don't know what it's supposed to do.
If you want a client that resumes, I think you'll need to look elsewhere. On Linux, there's the wget command line tool, at least. And if you're going to test pausing/resuming, do it on a much smaller file. One that doesn't waste lots of your time and bandwidth.
At 14:33 26/01/2006, you wrote:
If you want a client that resumes, I think you'll need to look elsewhere. On Linux, there's the wget command line tool, at least. And if you're going to test pausing/resuming, do it on a much smaller file. One that doesn't waste lots of your time and bandwidth.
Isn't there also a kget that does a similar job to software such as GetRight for windoze?
But - repeating myself here - I find it easiest to use the torrent. You can walk away and leave it for the day/night and it just works.
If there's any difficulty opening the ports to use it then firestarter has a bit torrent setting that makes it dead easy to do.
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 08:58 +0100, Per-Anton Rønning wrote:
Interesting. I tried to download Fedora, but only the first iso came through completely, the other three stopped somewhere close to the end of the download just before full download was reported in the download manager. I tried to pause and resume to see if this would make them go the last mile, but they stayed frozen. Therefore I have not burned the CD's, I did not expect that any success would come from an incomplete download.
I wouldn't expect them to work, either.
I downloaded in Mozilla Firefox, and as far as I know that should not be a problem.
I think the pause/resume feature that Firefox purports to offer does not work. I've never seen it resume a download, even on servers that I know support it. I don't know what it's supposed to do.
If you want a client that resumes, I think you'll need to look elsewhere. On Linux, there's the wget command line tool, at least.
Under windows, there's wget.exe (www.google.co.uk/search?q=wget.exe), it won't work if you keep restarting your machine though.
HTH.
And if you're going to test pausing/resuming, do it on a much smaller file. One that doesn't waste lots of your time and bandwidth.
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 18:12 +0000, Chris Norman wrote:
Under windows, there's wget.exe (www.google.co.uk/search?q=wget.exe), it won't work if you keep restarting your machine though.
For Windows, I'd probably recommend "wackget". It's a very small program gives you a small GUI for a customised version of wget. In essence, a very small and simple download manager.
Depending on what you mean by restart, you can continue an user-aborted download with it, but a system crash may stuff things up too much to continue.
Tim wrote:
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 08:58 +0100, Per-Anton Rønning wrote:
Interesting. I tried to download Fedora, but only the first iso came through completely, the other three stopped somewhere close to the end of the download just before full download was reported in the download manager. I tried to pause and resume to see if this would make them go the last mile, but they stayed frozen. Therefore I have not burned the CD's, I did not expect that any success would come from an incomplete download.
I wouldn't expect them to work, either.
I downloaded in Mozilla Firefox, and as far as I know that should not be a problem.
I think the pause/resume feature that Firefox purports to offer does not
[snip]
It pauses a download ALREADY IN PROGRESS and if it is then clicked it resumes the SAME DOWNLOAD. It won't resume a failed download.
Mike
Mike McCarty wrote:
Tim wrote:
I think the pause/resume feature that Firefox purports to offer does not
It pauses a download ALREADY IN PROGRESS and if it is then clicked it resumes the SAME DOWNLOAD. It won't resume a failed download.
If you cancel a download, and then click on try again, it will usually resume the download, instead of starting over.
Mikkel
Tim:
I think the pause/resume feature that Firefox purports to offer does not
Mike McCarty:
It pauses a download ALREADY IN PROGRESS and if it is then clicked it resumes the SAME DOWNLOAD.
It *never* does that here. It just sits there doing nothing. Even on my local server, which I know supports resuming downloads and has no stupid tricks implemented to thwart resumes.
Every version of Mozilla or Firefox, Windows or Linux, that I've tried, behaves that way.
Tim wrote:
Tim:
I think the pause/resume feature that Firefox purports to offer does not
Mike McCarty:
It pauses a download ALREADY IN PROGRESS and if it is then clicked it resumes the SAME DOWNLOAD.
It *never* does that here. It just sits there doing nothing. Even on my local server, which I know supports resuming downloads and has no stupid tricks implemented to thwart resumes.
AFAICT, it instructs it not to ACK one of the packets or request another, thus "pausing" the download.
Every version of Mozilla or Firefox, Windows or Linux, that I've tried, behaves that way.
Mine definitely causes a pause. How long one may let it go that way, I dunno. If one exits the tool, however, it cannot resume where it left off. It deletes the partial file. It does not what one would really like a pause/resume to do.
Mike
Tim:
Every version of Mozilla or Firefox, Windows or Linux, that I've tried, behaves that way. [doesn't resume paused downloads]
Mike McCarty:
Mine definitely causes a pause. How long one may let it go that way, I dunno. If one exits the tool, however, it cannot resume where it left off. It deletes the partial file. It does not what one would really like a pause/resume to do.
Oh, mine definitely stops downloading if I press the pause button, but it never recovers (under any circumstances).
'tis a thorough pain. There's any number of websites that are slow or unreliable, and being able to resume a download is very useful. They tend to be the ones that are next to impossible to use with an external download manager, too, as they don't have a normal download link; they have some stupid JavaScript or abuse form elements in some manner.
Tim wrote:
There's any number of websites that are slow or unreliable, and being able to resume a download is very useful. They tend to be the ones that are next to impossible to use with an external download manager, too, as they don't have a normal download link; they have some stupid JavaScript or abuse form elements in some manner.
Useful tip: install squid and configure your web-browser to use it. If a web-browser tries playing silly tricks, take a look at the /var/log/squid/access.log file to see what the Javascript was really looking for...
James.
On Friday 27 January 2006 01:18, Tim wrote:
Tim:
I think the pause/resume feature that Firefox purports to offer does not
Mike McCarty:
It pauses a download ALREADY IN PROGRESS and if it is then clicked it resumes the SAME DOWNLOAD.
It *never* does that here. It just sits there doing nothing. Even on my local server, which I know supports resuming downloads and has no stupid tricks implemented to thwart resumes.
Every version of Mozilla or Firefox, Windows or Linux, that I've tried, behaves that way.
Then I think I'd take a log hard look at whats in about:config to see if its disabled for some reason.
Mike McCarty:
It pauses a download ALREADY IN PROGRESS and if it is then clicked it resumes the SAME DOWNLOAD.
Tim:
It *never* does that here. It just sits there doing nothing. Even on my local server, which I know supports resuming downloads and has no stupid tricks implemented to thwart resumes.
Every version of Mozilla or Firefox, Windows or Linux, that I've tried, behaves that way.
Gene Heskett:
Then I think I'd take a log hard look at whats in about:config to see if its disabled for some reason.
Any ideas what to look for? I haven't gone around trying to disable this. Flash is the only plug-in I've added. Some of these are still in their default configurations. And much of what's available in about:config is unexplained, too.
Per-Anton Rønning said:
Anne Ramey wrote:
I'm trying to create iso disks for fedora core 3 i386. So far I have 3 coasters, two that won't boot and one that boots up, but is corrupt. Is there a better way to do this? I've downloaded the isos directly from redhat and I've used two different computers to do the CD burning. Is there a way I can get the needed info over the newtork directly onto the machine itself for a new install...maybe using the rescue CD?
Anne
Interesting. I tried to download Fedora, but only the first iso came through completely, the other three stopped somewhere close to the end of the download just before full download was reported in the download manager. I tried to pause and resume to see if this would make them go the last mile, but they stayed frozen. Therefore I have not burned the CD's, I did not expect that any success would come from an incomplete download. I downloaded in Mozilla Firefox, and as far as I know that should not be a problem. Maybe this is your problem, a close to- but no complete download? Does anybody know if this may be mirror related? I just used the download page on the Fedora website. Does anyone know where I could get a complete download?
i would suggest that you use wget..it's easier and OMHO more relaible than most download managers out there which have "habits" of "freezing" and "hanging" when they are almost done downloading..so frustrating!!
#wget -c -t inf ftp(or http)://somesite/somefile.iso
Brgds Per-Anton
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Per-Anton Rønning wrote:
Anne Ramey wrote:
I'm trying to create iso disks for fedora core 3 i386. So far I have 3 coasters, two that won't boot and one that boots up, but is corrupt. Is there a better way to do this? I've downloaded the isos directly from redhat and I've used two different computers to do the CD burning. Is there a way I can get the needed info over the newtork directly onto the machine itself for a new install...maybe using the rescue CD?
Anne
Interesting. I tried to download Fedora, but only the first iso came through completely, the other three stopped somewhere close to the end of the download just before full download was reported in the download manager. I tried to pause and resume to see if this would make them go the last mile, but they stayed frozen.
[snip]
I don't use browsers for that, I use wget, which is superior.
Mike
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