Hi, John: I've been away for almost a week, but need to respond with a quick pointer ... Don't download newer releases of the Speakup Modified iso files. That's time consuming and wasteful. Instead, use rsync. It's a very cool application that's smart enough to download only what's different. Since only small portions of the images change, you get updates much more efficiently. It's absolutely worth learning. Here's a quick command to get you started. The dot at the end of this command indicates the updated files will be placed in the current directory, so cd to the directory which holds your Speakup Modified iso images before issuing: rsync -avtz --delete bumpy.braille.uwo.ca::ftp/speakup/disks/fedora/current/* . John McCann writes: > 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 -- 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.
