RE: [Sugar-devel] 883 on XO1

2012-01-08 Thread Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn
"Having builds available via bittorrent or some other p2p tool would be very useful when the dev team in in China" In China and everywhere... Now, I not good connection (i'm using a 3G modem) but I can make .torrent of 883 and another image... When I try to make .torrents... ever have problems

RE: [Sugar-devel] 883 on XO1

2012-01-08 Thread David Leeming
: Monday, 9 January 2012 6:02 a.m. To: Alec Muffett Cc: David Leeming; Sugar devel; de...@laptop.org Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] 883 on XO1 On 01/06/2012 03:46 AM, Alec Muffett wrote: > At the risk of sounding perverse you could do block-level repair on > this by having someone put the same f

Re: [Sugar-devel] 883 on XO1

2012-01-08 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 01/06/2012 03:46 AM, Alec Muffett wrote: At the risk of sounding perverse you could do block-level repair on this by having someone put the same file up for Bittorrent somewhere, and David could start the torrent, pause his "repeat" download, install a copy of previously-downloaded file, resta

Re: [Sugar-devel] 883 on XO1

2012-01-06 Thread James Cameron
The method used was to take a checksum of each of 128 parts of the file, compare the checksums, and then transmit only the corrupted part. This recovery method is only applicable if the file size matches, but the checksum does not. I've written this up at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Download#Wrong_

Re: [Sugar-devel] 883 on XO1

2012-01-06 Thread Chris Leonard
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 8:22 PM, James Cameron wrote: > (we have discovered that only a tiny part of the file is corrupted ... > so far one part in 128). > So only about 70 cents worth. cjl ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.lapt

Re: [Sugar-devel] 883 on XO1

2012-01-06 Thread James Cameron
(we have discovered that only a tiny part of the file is corrupted ... so far one part in 128). -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

RE: [Sugar-devel] 883 on XO1

2012-01-06 Thread David Leeming
Cc: Sugar devel; de...@laptop.org Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] 883 on XO1 On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 12:26 AM, David Leeming wrote: > So i conclude I have just thrown USD 85 down the toilet. > Ouch, David, I will happily keep you supplied with pre-tested OLPC image downloads (by snail-mail CD-R

Re: [Sugar-devel] 883 on XO1

2012-01-06 Thread Chris Leonard
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 12:26 AM, David Leeming wrote: > So i conclude I have just thrown USD 85 down the toilet. > Ouch, David, I will happily keep you supplied with pre-tested OLPC image downloads (by snail-mail CD-ROM) in exchange for some help recruiting localizers for the Oceanic languages.

Re: [Sugar-devel] 883 on XO1

2012-01-06 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 08:46:25AM +, Alec Muffett wrote: > Lacking that has anyone got an equivalent hash-the-blocks-based binary > diff tool, or does one just need to be written? rdiff or rsync is what I would use. But all such tools require some effort to explain, or in David's case, to do

Re: [Sugar-devel] 883 on XO1

2012-01-06 Thread Alec Muffett
At the risk of sounding perverse you could do block-level repair on this by having someone put the same file up for Bittorrent somewhere, and David could start the torrent, pause his "repeat" download, install a copy of previously-downloaded file, restart his Bittorrent client and have it downl

RE: [Sugar-devel] 883 on XO1

2012-01-05 Thread David Leeming
James Cameron Sent: Friday, 6 January 2012 4:42 p.m. To: David Leeming Cc: 'Sugar devel'; de...@laptop.org Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] 883 on XO1 Please provide: 1. the names of the files on the USB drive, os883.img fs.zip (renamed from os883.img.fs.zip) 2. the sizes of the two

RE: [Sugar-devel] 883 on XO1

2012-01-05 Thread David Leeming
ay, 6 January 2012 4:42 p.m. To: David Leeming Cc: 'Sugar devel'; de...@laptop.org Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] 883 on XO1 Please provide: 1. the names of the files on the USB drive, os833.img fs.zip (renamed from os883.img.fs.zip) 2. the sizes of the two files, in bytes, especially the

Re: [Sugar-devel] 883 on XO1

2012-01-05 Thread James Cameron
G'day David, The file fs.zip on the USB drive is correct. The file os883.img on the USB drive is incorrect. The md5sum you calculate differs from what I calculate. I calculate e9e8d45a513b10f6c23145f7c6ba766b and my calculation matches the md5 file we have on our web server: http://download.lap

Re: [Sugar-devel] 883 on XO1

2012-01-05 Thread James Cameron
Please provide: 1. the names of the files on the USB drive, 2. the sizes of the two files, in bytes, especially the files os883.img and fs.zip, 3. the md5sum of the two files. This will let me check your download. You might be able to find some people here to do your downloads by post for m