fc3 disc check fails

[Janina Sajka]

I haven't been ignoring you--I just don't know the answer to this
question.

I wonder how effective a torrent is with only a few sites participating?
I don't know how to set one up at this time, either.

It's certainly an idea worth looking into, but I think we need to press
forward on a mirror site or two as well.

Al Puzzuoli writes:
> Just curious,
> 
> What would be involved in starting a torrent of these, at least until a 
> faster mirror is set up?  I have 768 up and an old 400 mhz machine that's 
> always on as a music server.  I wouldn't mind being a seed for a few days 
> if need be.
> 
> 
> --Al
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John McCann" <lists at jamsite.us>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 4:59 PM
> Subject: Re: fc3 disc check fails
> 
> 
> >Hi Janina:
> >
> >I wrote my immediate previous list message before reading all the email 
> >that had come in during the last sixteen hours.
> >
> >Immediately upon reading your earlier entreaty respecting MD5sum, I did 
> >exactly that on the first 02/19/2005 iso file that's currently on my FTP 
> >site. Yep, its messed up! Don't quite understand all the gobbldy-goop 
> >which
> >
> >md5sum -c /var/ftp/pub/linux/FC3-i386-disc1.iso
> >
> >returned, but I understood enough to know that the disk is, as I said, 
> >messed up; hence, doubtless unusable.
> >
> >At this point, I'm downloading the 02/22/2005 set, and will check each 
> >disk as the download completes.
> >
> >Just say a prayer that, at the speed at which I'm acquiring these, they 
> >don't upgrade the disk images before I get a full set. That is, in fact, 
> >what happened last time. I was downloading the 02/15/2005 set; woke up 
> >saturday morning, february 19th, only to find that the download of disk 
> >two had frozen. After doing a little investigative work, I of course 
> >discovered that they had upgraded to the 02/19/2005 set, forcing me to 
> >redownload the whole set again.
> >
> >John
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message ----- 
> >From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
> >To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> ><speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> >Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 4:29 PM
> >Subject: Re: fc3 disc check fails
> >
> >
> >>Run an md5sum check.
> >>
> >>John McCann writes:
> >>>Hi folks:
> >>>
> >>>For what it's worth, I just came home, and have vaerified that disk one 
> >>>has
> >>>been successfully downloaded such that it can be placed on my FTP site. 
> >>>The
> >>>disks now have a date of 02/22/2005. Maybe the 02/19/2005 set had a
> >>>defective or problematic disk one all along.
> >>>
> >>>Let's hope I can get the whole 02/22/2005 set at this crawl speed 
> >>>without
> >>>them changing the release during the pendancy of my retrieving them.
> >>>
> >>>John
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>----- Original Message ----- 
> >>>From: "Juan Hernandez" <juanh at cox.net>
> >>>To: "speakup" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> >>>Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 10:54 PM
> >>>Subject: fc3 disc check fails
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Hi, I've downloaded the discs from linux-speakup.org, and 
> >>>ftp.jamsite.us,
> >>>and when running the test it fails.  any ideas guys?  thanks
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Janina Sajka				Phone: +1.202.494.7040
Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC	http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com

Chair, Accessibility Workgroup		Free Standards Group (FSG)
janina at freestandards.org		http://a11y.org

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