fc3 disc check fails

Sina Bahram sbahram at nc.rr.com
Fri Mar 4 21:22:31 EST 2005


Are doing: don't' worry ...

And I am willing to offer my own personal bandwidth for a taurant, if we get
one started up.

Take care,
Sina 

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 9:05 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: fc3 disc check fails

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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> >>>
> >>>
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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
> >>
> >>If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different 
> >>problem.
> >>
> >>
> >>_______________________________________________





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