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September 10, 2003 02:29 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> *** James Sparenberg Wed, 10 Sep 2003 00:31:54 -0700 :
> > I've had luck using gftp to restart a download that Moz had
> > aborted. when I started the download if found the original and
> > asked what I wanted to do with resume as the recommended option.
>
> Same here! You saved my day! Now I'm trying to kick my own butt
> because I already removed the other files. :(
>
> And of course I'll use Brant's advice to use rsync!
>
> This was a good learning experience how one gets careless by having
> more than sufficient ressources!
>
> wobo
Howdy;
Lowest possible bandwidth required methods for staying current.
For anyone having bandwidth limitation problems that wants to keep
current, there are a few ways to do it. One is the easy way; use urpmi,
make your software management sources using the Mandrake-devel tree
from whatever server works best for you, and before anything else
update urpmi. If there's an update you'll get it, then you can use
Tom's;
urpmi.update -a -f --wget && urpmi --wget --no-verify-rpm
- --auto-select -v
to get everything at once. Of course this works best logged in at the
console as super user with no X running. It's boring, but baby it's a
hell of a lot faster, and less problematic, than trying to upgrade GUI
apps while you're running them.
Alternatively if you have downloaded the ISOs for any recent Mandrake
release _don't delete them once you've burned the disks._ When a new
release is called all you have to do is rename the ISOs to the new
release and rsync will take care of making them actual copies of what
the servers hold.
This example was saved from my synchronization of Mandrake 9.0 ISOs
renamed to 9.2 beta2. Disk 1 shown:
[...root]# rsync -avrt --progress --delete
ftp.uninett.no::Mandrake/Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-9.2beta1-CD1.i586.iso
/store/MandrakeISO/MandrakeLinux-9.2beta1-CD1.i586.iso
Welcome to the FTP archive at The University of Oslo
====================================================
This archive is running on a GNU/Linux PC with 1.7 TB of diskspace.
Machine and diskspace provided by UiO. Uninett provides the
gigabit network connectivity.
Please use the alias ftp.uninett.no instead of other, old, aliases
or the hosts real DNS-name.
receiving file list ...
1 file to consider
/store/MandrakeISO/MandrakeLinux-9.2beta1-CD1.i586.iso
682575872 100% 146.86kB/s 1:15:38
wrote 249968 bytes read 620523546 bytes 135407.03 bytes/sec
total size is 682575872 speedup is 1.10
The important part is the line that displays how much was actually read
and written. All bits in the image have to be read at both ends for
comparison, but the actual transfer is just the difference between the
two. No need to mount the ISOs loop-back either. Just do it. I'd say
249,968 bytes is far preferable to the entire ISO image of 682,575,872
bytes, wouldn't you? Thought so. :-)
Of course for anyone with tons of disk space (me) and/or a broadband
connection (also me ;->) there are other alternatives. You can have a
local copy of the Mandrake-devel tree and use a hard drive install
image to make a boot floppy to "upgrade" or do a complete install. Or
you can do the same with a network image and install directly from the
mirror or any other server you can access that holds the files needed.
If you don't want to use a floppy, or don't have one, you can make a
bootable CD by following the instructions on the Cooker TWiki, or add
them to lilo as boot options, same "how-To" source:
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/CookerHowTo
and the link to the actual article:
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/CookerHowTo#From_a_Local_Mirror
There are links from there to other tutorials including, Greg Meyer's
how-to on rsyncing ISOs.
I'm sure one of the gurus will come by and let you know whatever I
screwed up in this post. I hope they will anyway, I'm still 2 days
behind with stuff I'm *supposed* to be doing. lol
Have fun people. <g>
Regards;
Charlie
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Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org
Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-7mdk
13:40:10 up 13:35, 1 user, load average: 0.41, 0.33, 0.42
New York's got the ways and means;
Just won't let you be.
-- The Grateful Dead
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