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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....

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I asked about this and never got a response, so I decided to waste some time.

 

RSYNC Servers Listings for Mandrake

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02/29/03

The following is a partial list or RSYNC servers and modules.

 

 

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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

 

 

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RSYNC servers UK

 

ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk

sunsite.uio.no

 

 

 

 

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I hope this helps some people out there...

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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.

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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.

 

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[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

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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.

 

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[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.

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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 ?

 

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

 

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).

 

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....

 

Ciow!

 

MOttS

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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 ?

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