I've had problems with the SKY ones aswell, the discs would become unreadable after a few days. Philip Murray me(a)philth.net.nz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthias Dallmeier" <matthias(a)dallmeier.net> To: "wlug" <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 1:51 PM Subject: Re: [wlug] Anyone got Fedora Core 1 ISO's yet?
Craig Mckenna wrote:
Matthias has copies of them, I burnt the for him last night ;)
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Apart from the one coaster you found, the disc with the second ISO image on it and conveniently also the second install disc turned out to have CRC errors. That means that unless your CD writer has serious issues, so far every second SKY brand CD-R in my spindle has been faulty. In other words, resist buying cheap media at Woolworths!
Anyway, here is how to recover an ISO image or any other large file that is still available on the Internet from a CD with a CRC error without having to download the entire thing again:
- Copy the file up to the CRC error. - Use wget to resume download on the file for a while. - Get impatient. - Mount the faulty CD on a machine with Apache. - Create a symlink from your public_html directory to the file on CD. - Use wget to resume download on the file from that. - Be amused by the amazingly fast download rate. - Check the MD5 sum.
So yes, I do have all three ISO images of Fedore Core 1 now. And many thanks again to Craig Mckenna for speeding up my download quite considerably.
By the way, Fedora Core 1 looks a lot like Red Hat Linux 9 after someone replaced every mention of Red Hat with Fedora. I was going to give everyone a few more details, but the laptop I installed it on yesterday now freezes on the annoying graphical thing that is meant to cover up all that "scary" text when it boots. Personally I find a mostly black screen with random garbage in the top few lines a lot more intimidating. Well, so much for my review of. It comes with GNOME 2.4.
</rant>
If anyone wants a copy, bring three non-SKY brand CD-Rs to my place...
-- Matthias
-- http://matthias.dallmeier.net/
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