grml accessible boot up question

Jude DaShiell jdashiel at shellworld.net
Thu Sep 22 18:05:18 EDT 2011


By way of follow up, I used the same disk and almost brought up the amd 
linux box with grml.  The problem was, after typing swspeak <cr> after the 
system had finished booting I heard the message speechdup.d is not 
available sorry.  Okay, so the disk integrity isn't there and that was a 
wget download too.  The speechdup.d package would have been on a disk that 
had integrity.  So now I'm into a problem in Linux that cuts across 
distros.  The problem is bad disk images get downloaded and once 
downloaded tools like wget will not correct their mistakes.  The 
bittorrent route is no better either and not all distros are available 
using rsync.  So what to do?  Perhaps I can write a script that takes the 
list of file names from the output of the md5sum and perhaps gpg commands 
so as to find which files are bad and loops through all of that output and 
goes and does an automated transfer preferably through tunneling and with 
something like sftp puts the files where they need be when the image is 
mounted.  Then the "repaired" image can be checked again for 
integrity and the process repeated until the disk comes up clean and 
complete.



Jude <jdashiel at shellworld.net> "I love the Pope, I love seeing him in his 
Pope-Mobile, his three feet of bullet proof plexi-glass. That's faith in 
action folks! You know he's got God on his side."
~ Bill Hicks



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