downloaded dvd and live 12 times,hash alway same but wrong!

David dgboles at gmail.com
Sun Oct 25 16:38:12 UTC 2009


On 10/25/2009 4:41 AM, suvayu ali wrote:
> 2009/10/25 Andre Robatino <andre at bwh.harvard.edu>:
>> If you suspect an image is corrupt, you can use one of the mirrors with
>> an rsync server (see the rsync man page) to fix it with the minimum
>> possible data transfer.  You can see the ones with an rsync daemon listed at
>>
>> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/11/
>>
>> The syntax would be something like
>>
>> rsync -v
>> rsync://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/fedora.redhat/linux/releases/11/Fedora/i386/iso/Fedora-11-i386-DVD.iso
>> Fedora-11-i386-DVD.iso
>>
>> (assuming the corrupt copy of Fedora-11-i386-DVD.iso is in your current
>> directory).  Not that you need it this time, but good to keep in mind
>> since it beats doing a full download 12 times.
>>
> 
> Thanks Andre for this tip. I have been meaning to learn how to use
> rsync for a few months now, but can't seem to find the time :-/
> 


You are aware that the disk will offer to test itself if you boot it up?
No smoke or mirrors needed.  :-)

-- 


  David

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