On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 11:49:47 at 11:49:47AM -0400, Jeremy Portzer (jeremyp@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 11:12, M. Fioretti wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 14:20:41 at 02:20:41PM -0700, rhl+dale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (rhl+dale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > > > > A good way to find the size of an ISO 9660 volume: > > > isosize -x shrike-i386-disc1.iso > > > > Thanks for providing the iso sizes, and for this useful general info. > > However, I started the whole thread exactly because I have no > > bandwidth to download the images. I was trying to find a way to look > > at the byte sizes given by an ftp client *without* downloading > > anything, and to go from them to the numbers that you provided. Is > > that possible? > > > > thanks again for your time, > > Have you not tried "ls -l" in an FTP client? > > Not rocket science here. > Of course I did. The question came from the fact that those number, didided by 2048, did not gave integer result, and the closest approximations didn't lead me to a matching checksum. The reason is probably that one should subtract some padding as explained recently on this list, but how should one know? That's why I asked. Ciao, Marco Fioretti -- Marco Fioretti m.fioretti, at the server inwind.it Red Hat for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/en/ Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right Salvor Hardin , "Foundation"
