F12 Live CHECKSUM failing

[Sawrub]

On 12/19/2009 09:22 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 19 December 2009, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
>    
>> On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 01:24 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>      
>>> Ktorrent hangs in there till somebody starts seeding what it needs, but I
>>> have very very little experience with the others so can't say what they
>>> do.
>>>
>>> I have seen the seed count goto zero a couple of times, but when I got up
>>> the next morning, it had the file and was seeding it.
>>>        
>> Gene,
>>
>> In this case a better alternative to torrent would probably be rsync,
>> especially since you probably have 99.99% of the right bits. The Fedora
>> downloads site doesn't support rsync, but lots of its mirrors do.
>>
>> rsync's command line options can be a bit imposing if you haven't used
>> it before. From your Fedora-12-x86_64-Live directory, type and run the
>> following command line (this is long and may wrap, but it's all one line
>> including the trailing " .").
>>
>> $ rsync -acvzP
>> rsync://rsync.gtlib.gatech.edu/fedora-enchilada/linux/releases/12/Live/x86_
>> 64/Fedora-12-x86_64-Live.iso .
>>
>> This will do a block-by-block comparison of a known good source file at
>> the Georgia Tech mirror against your local copy. It will replace any
>> local blocks that don't match those on the mirror. It should only take
>> rsync a very few minutes to repair your iso file.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> --Doc Savage
>>   Fairview Heights, IL
>>      
> Its my understanding that restarting the torrent will do the same thing,
> without needed the drive space for the 2nd copy of the file.  Both use
> checksums over the individual 64k block of data, with rsync copying the data
> locally to the 2nd file if they match, whereas torrent will replace the
> defective 64k block insitu with the net fetch if the local is bad.  I would
> imagine that the rsync times could be calculated to be a very small amount
> longer due to the copying involved, but OTOH, connection latencies might
> swamp that out.
>
> We have about a foot of white stuff here&  still coming down.  Here being WV,
> about 100 miles north of Charleston on I-79.
>
>    
I don't see that al this a problem of torrent . As mentioned earlier 
[though i'm still confused] its some issue in the signing of the ISO. 
let me give a try creating the boot-able USB under windows.

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