hi, I always use wget to retrieve the isos with and i never had problems. Here in South Africa we have some times lines that drop etc. I have downloaded the fedora modified for speakup disks with no problems. On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Bad disks that don't burn correctly are often the result of downloads even > after rsync has been used. I was able to get disc1 and disc2 to burn > properly consistently but never did get disc3 or disc4 to burn without errors > and I used an automated script to do the burns myself I had rolled. If all > you can get good from the site is fedora-core-1 yarrow I don't advise > attempting an upgrade from that version to current. I tried that and got > four programs in unresolveable dependency chains so I decide to try > installing what disks I can without running into the error again on disc 3. > I figured I could make an initrd at the error condition; then reboot, then > later do yum install *. Wrong. I couldn't get the ethernet up and connected > on the internet. The fedora installation doesn't mark a package as a needed > install when it encounters a disk error, it just hangs on the error program > and offers no means to skip a defective program and go onto another program > and mark the error program yum could take a script once connection were > established and download the missing packages. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
