Re: [K12OSN] ISO & rsync Mirrors

[Eric Harrison <eharrison mail mesd k12 or us>]

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Warwick Chapman wrote:

>Howdy
>
>I am trying to get my 2.0.0 CDs up to date.
>
>First problem:
>
>I only have CD's of the 2.0.0 release, not iso files. I do a
>
>dd if=/dev/hdc of=K12LTSP-2.0.1_disc1.iso
>dd if=/dev/hdc of=K12LTSP-2.0.1_disc2.iso
>
>For the two CDs, but both have errors reported from dd just before 
>the end of the CDs, and the filesizes end up being about a meg 
>smaller than the 2.0.0 ISOs. Will rsync sort this discrepency out?

Yes.

>Then, I cannot hit an rsync mirror, they are constantly full. When 
>are the larger mirrors going to get 2.0.1?

I've been having problems with my build of rsync hanging. It will work 
fine for quite a while, then out of the blue it will refuse to exit after
the client disconnnects.

I dropped back to the lastest Red Hat errata build, hopefully that will fix it. 

-Eric