Thanks for your idea Tom, I'll keep this email as insurance because someone
offered to copy the disc for me. Appreciate your help - keep the faith. :-)
-David
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Allender" <txa99c@Cs.Nott.AC.UK>
To: <nottingham@lists.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: [nottingham] RH 7.3
> > Chaps, does anyone have a spare Red Hat 7.3 disc 1? I downloaded and =
> > burned all 3 install ISOs but after a couple of uses I had to do another
=
> > reinstall and the disc now apparently has an error on it meaning it =
> > can't install the dev-3.3-4 RPM. I did a mediacheck on it and it =
> > passed, but it still doesn't work. I don't have broadband anymore so =
> > another download is out of the question. I'd be perfectly willing to =
> > trade a blank CD-R for a copy of disc 1. Any takers??
>
> I would help if I were still in Nottingham - I run Red Hat 7.3 myself.
>
> You could try building the iso from the burnt CD using 'dd' and then
fixing it
> up with 'rsync'.
>
> mount /mnt/cdrom
>
> dd if=/dev/hda of=valhalla-i386-disc1.iso bs=512k conv=noerror
>
> rsync -avvpP
rsync://redhat.dulug.duke.edu/redhat-ftp/redhat/linux/7.3/en/iso/i386/valhal
la-i386-disc1.iso .
>
> Both these commands are untested (I'm not with my machine right now...) so
> they made need fixing / correcting. Rsync should use far less bandwidth
than
> downloading the full iso and so it shouldn't take a lifetime over dialup.
>
> HTH,
> Tom.
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