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@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Speakup mailing list >>> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Speakup mailing list >>> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> -- >> >> 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. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
