Guest anon Posted February 25, 2003 Report Share Posted February 25, 2003 Don't waste time d-loading all three CDs @ 650mb,. Instead use RSYNC to just d-load the updated or new files. So instead of d-loading 650mb, you may only need to d-load say 50mb (roughly) How do you use it?? read this: http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/rsync-mandrakeiso.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted February 25, 2003 Report Share Posted February 25, 2003 Thanks that will save some bandwidth and more importantly time with my slow 128k adsl home connection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted February 26, 2003 Report Share Posted February 26, 2003 Appreciate it.. will use too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanuckKev Posted February 26, 2003 Report Share Posted February 26, 2003 Don't waste time d-loading all three CDs @ 650mb,.  Instead use RSYNC  to just d-load the updated or new files. So instead of d-loading 650mb, you may only need to d-load say 50mb (roughly) How do you use it??  read this:http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/rsync-mandrakeiso.html  Great. It works well, but I have to ask, which mirrors are detup for rsync? I know that carroll.cac.psu.edu is, cause I've used it, but are any others setup for this???  And a quick note, the Rsync article under tutorials was what got me started with it. It works great, but if it only had a sample setup for rsyncd so I could access the office service from home.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanuckKev Posted February 26, 2003 Report Share Posted February 26, 2003 I asked about this and never got a response, so I decided to waste some time.  RSYNC Servers Listings for Mandrake ====================================== 02/29/03 The following is a partial list or RSYNC servers and modules.   ===============================================  RSYNC servers United States  ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu mandrake Mandrake Linux distribution mandrake-devel Mandrake development tree mandrake-iso Mandrake development tree ISOs mandrake-old Mandrake old releases  ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu Mandrake Linux-Mandrake Mandrake-devel Linux-Mandrake development tree   ftp://ftp.orst.edu mandrake Mandrake Mirror (updated 2x daily) mandrake-devel Mandrake Cooker Mirror (updated 2x daily)  ftp://mirrors.secsup.org mandrake Mandrake Current Mirror at Secsup.Org mandrake-devel Mandrake-Devel Mirror at Secsup.Org mandrake-iso Mandrake-iso Mirror at Secsup.Org mandrake-old Mandrake-old Mirror at Secsup.Org  ftp://ftp.umr.edu mandrake Mandrake  ftp://helios.dii..utk.edu mandrake Mandrake Linux (~7.2gb)  ftp://mirrors.xmission.com mandrake Mandrake Linux  ftp://uml-pub.ists.dartmouth.edu mandrakemirror Partial mirror of Mandrake Linux uml-md71 Mandrake 7.1 root filesystem for uml uml-md80 Mandrake 8.0 root filesystem for uml   =============================================== RSYNC servers UK  ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk sunsite.uio.no     ===============================================   I hope this helps some people out there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted February 26, 2003 Report Share Posted February 26, 2003 I asked about this and never got a response, so I decided to waste some time.I hope this helps some people out there... Â Your time was not wasted 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted February 27, 2003 Report Share Posted February 27, 2003 On the subject of Rsync.. is mandrakeusers.com ftp site rsync-able? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted February 27, 2003 Report Share Posted February 27, 2003 I will definitively use it too for RC X til FINAL ! Â Thanks Anon ! Â MOtTS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted February 27, 2003 Report Share Posted February 27, 2003 On the subject of Rsync.. is mandrakeusers.com ftp site rsync-able? At the moment no, I need to install an rsync module on the .com site, and Im not sure how to do it, or what folder to put it in, cgi-bin? If anyone here knows how its done, please let me or Cannonfodder know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted March 6, 2003 Report Share Posted March 6, 2003 Anon, did you ever figure whether you have SSH access to your com site? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relic2K Posted March 7, 2003 Report Share Posted March 7, 2003 I followed the tutorial at both sites, but nothing is downloaded using rsync. I am currently running RC 1, and I ran RSYNC against RC 2. There was download information displayed but it didn't appear to have downloaded any data, and I am not getting any errors either. One question I do have, is if I require the RC 1 ISO on my hard drive for it to compare against ? Here is the out put.  ______________________________________________________________  [root@user 9.1]# rsync -Pz --stats carroll.cac.psu.edu::mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-9.1rc2-CD1.i586.iso  Welcome to The Pennsylvania State University / Center for Academic Computing FTP Archives at carroll.cac.psu.edu  Due to U.S. Exports Regulations, all cryptographic software on this site is subject to the following legal notice:  This site includes publicly available encryption source code which, together with object code resulting from the compiling of publicly available source code, may be exported from the United States under License Exception "TSU" pursuant to 15 C.F.R. Section 740.13(e).  This legal notice applies to cryptographic software only. Please see the Bureau of Export Administration, http://www.bxa.doc.gov/ for more information about current U.S. regulations.  Public mirror sites who use our rsyncd may want to contact us for access to a restricted-access rsyncd to better avoid being blocked out.  Please send suggestions/comments to ftp@carroll.cac.psu.edu.   -rw-r--r-- 682131456 2003/03/03 13:28:05 MandrakeLinux-9.1rc2-CD1.i586.iso rsync[24948] (receiver) heap statistics: arena: 12952 (bytes from sbrk) ordblks: 2 (chunks not in use) smblks: 0 hblks: 0 (chunks from mmap) hblkhd: 0 (bytes from mmap) usmblks: 0 fsmblks: 0 uordblks: 12320 (bytes used) fordblks: 632 (bytes free) keepcost: 312 (bytes in releasable chunk)Number of files: 1  Number of files transferred: 0 Total file size: 682131456 bytes Total transferred file size: 0 bytes Literal data: 0 bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 52 Total bytes written: 132 Total bytes read: 1062  wrote 132 bytes read 1062 bytes 2388.00 bytes/sec total size is 682131456 speedup is 571299.38 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanuckKev Posted March 7, 2003 Report Share Posted March 7, 2003 I followed the tutorial at both sites, but nothing is downloaded using rsync. I am currently running RC 1, and I ran RSYNC against RC 2. There was download information displayed but it didn't appear to have downloaded any data, and I am not getting any errors either. One question I do have, is if I require the RC 1 ISO on my hard drive for it to compare against ? Here is the out put. ______________________________________________________________  [root@user 9.1]# rsync -Pz --stats carroll.cac.psu.edu::mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-9.1rc2-CD1.i586.iso  You have the right command, but you forgot to to supply the destination...  rsync -[options] host::module/path/filename destination  So your command would be:  rsync -Pz --stats carroll.cac.psu.edu::mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-9.1rc2-CD1.i586.iso whatever-the-destination-is  You could use the . as the destination if you are in the directory that you want the files put in, or the absolute path. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relic2K Posted March 7, 2003 Report Share Posted March 7, 2003 Okay rsync seems to be better now. Is there a way to upgrade to RC 2 with out having to boot off CDs ? I know I can mount the ISO images, but how do upgrade without going through the entire installation again ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted March 7, 2003 Report Share Posted March 7, 2003 Okay rsync seems to be better now. Is there a way to upgrade to RC 2 with out having to boot off CDs ? I know I can mount the ISO images, but how do upgrade without going through the entire installation again ? Â If you are too lazy to burn the 3 cds you can install from the hard drive (I did it). Here is a quick review from the tut that can be found HERE Â 1) Mount iso #1 somewhere mount -t iso9660 -o loop MandrakeLinux-9.1rc2-CD1.i586.iso /mnt/Somewhere 2) Format a floppy and make a boot floppy out of the hd.img that can be found in /image diretory of the iso image mke2fs /dev/fd0 dd if=/mnt/Somewhere/image/hd.list of=/dev/fd0 3) Note on a piece of paper on which partition and in which directory you put iso image #1 and reboot with the floppy. When prompted, give the partition + directory + name of image #1. The install/upgrade should start (it did for me). Â Notice that the install process is lot faster this way cause all the info is on the HD rather than on a cdrom. Also, the time to make a floppy is shorter than burning 3 rewritable cds. You'll also have to play a bit with urpmi and /etc/fstab so that the images are mounted at boot time (ex: /mnt/cd1, /mnt/cd2 and /mnt/cd3) and you can install rpms from those. When rc3 or final is all you can process same way.... Â Ciow! Â MOttS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relic2K Posted March 7, 2003 Report Share Posted March 7, 2003 I would actually prefer to upgrade from CD MottS. Thanks for the info though. I have downloaded all 3 CD images, using RSYNC, but they don't seem to be any smaller ? Why is this ? I could have just used FTP to do the same thing. I though RSYNC would only download the parts of the Images which were different from RC 1 ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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