Just finished my review
Read it here: http://overtag.dk/blog/?postid=2 If you have comments or screenshots please e-mail me, and I'll add it. I wouldn't wanna miss a thing on this. It's my first linux review ever, and it took me like hours to write.. Links should be up on OSNews and Distrowatch sooner or later... And oh yeah, do feel free to link to it yourself =) Sincerely, Benjamin
Hi, On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Benjamin Bach wrote:
Read it here: http://overtag.dk/blog/?postid=2
If you have comments or screenshots please e-mail me, and I'll add it. I wouldn't wanna miss a thing on this. It's my first linux review ever, and it took me like hours to write..
Links should be up on OSNews and Distrowatch sooner or later... And oh yeah, do feel free to link to it yourself =)
The "little download trick" part is a very good idea: Since BitTorrent wasn't available immediately I started an FTP download. After 1,6 GB I decided to do BitTorrent instead and here's a little trick: Azureus (a BitTorrent client) scans files to see if they've changed ("Force rescan"). I started a new BitTorrent download which creates a full-sized, empty file. To merge it with my FTP download I stopped Azureus and did this: commandline:~$> dd if=/ftp_download.iso of=bittorrent.iso After that I did the rescan and Azureus started downloading all the missing pieces. Surprisingly my ISO ended up with the correct MD5sum. Wonderful. A simple "cp" would end up identical, even a "mv". ;-)) Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)
Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Benjamin Bach wrote:
Read it here: http://overtag.dk/blog/?postid=2
If you have comments or screenshots please e-mail me, and I'll add it. I wouldn't wanna miss a thing on this. It's my first linux review ever, and it took me like hours to write..
Links should be up on OSNews and Distrowatch sooner or later... And oh yeah, do feel free to link to it yourself =)
The "little download trick" part is a very good idea:
Since BitTorrent wasn't available immediately I started an FTP download. After 1,6 GB I decided to do BitTorrent instead and here's a little trick: Azureus (a BitTorrent client) scans files to see if they've changed ("Force rescan"). I started a new BitTorrent download which creates a full-sized, empty file. To merge it with my FTP download I stopped Azureus and did this: commandline:~$> dd if=/ftp_download.iso of=bittorrent.iso After that I did the rescan and Azureus started downloading all the missing pieces. Surprisingly my ISO ended up with the correct MD5sum.
Wonderful.
A simple "cp" would end up identical, even a "mv". ;-))
Cheers -e
What do you mean? dd merges, cp and mv overwrites. /Benjamin
Hi, On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Benjamin Bach wrote:
Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Benjamin Bach wrote:
Read it here: http://overtag.dk/blog/?postid=2
If you have comments or screenshots please e-mail me, and I'll add it. I wouldn't wanna miss a thing on this. It's my first linux review ever, and it took me like hours to write..
Links should be up on OSNews and Distrowatch sooner or later... And oh yeah, do feel free to link to it yourself =)
The "little download trick" part is a very good idea:
Since BitTorrent wasn't available immediately I started an FTP download. After 1,6 GB I decided to do BitTorrent instead and here's a little trick: Azureus (a BitTorrent client) scans files to see if they've changed ("Force rescan"). I started a new BitTorrent download which creates a full-sized, empty file. To merge it with my FTP download I stopped Azureus and did this: commandline:~$> dd if=/ftp_download.iso of=bittorrent.iso After that I did the rescan and Azureus started downloading all the missing pieces. Surprisingly my ISO ended up with the correct MD5sum.
Wonderful.
A simple "cp" would end up identical, even a "mv". ;-))
Cheers -e
What do you mean? dd merges, cp and mv overwrites.
No, it is not like you are hoping. In each case (cp, mv, dd) anything existing simply gets wiped if you do not have a shell alias for your command which would request back before doing. Like alias cp='cp -ip' alias mv='mv -i' So I would suggest "mv". This way, you would not have to delete the old file fragment later... Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)
On Monday 10 October 2005 01:16, Benjamin Bach wrote:
What do you mean? dd merges, cp and mv overwrites.
dd can merge, with judicious use of bs, count, seek and skip. With the plain dd command you used, it will simply overwrite the destination
On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 09:20:06PM +0200, Benjamin Bach wrote:
Read it here: http://overtag.dk/blog/?postid=2
If you have comments or screenshots please e-mail me, and I'll add it. I wouldn't wanna miss a thing on this. It's my first linux review ever, and it took me like hours to write..
Links should be up on OSNews and Distrowatch sooner or later... And oh yeah, do feel free to link to it yourself =)
Like it. Although some people will find the boot.iso a bit problematic at this moment. Also you missed the other ways of installing, like http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Installation_without_CD houghi -- Quote correct (NL) http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/ Zitiere richtig (DE) http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren Quote correctly (EN) http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
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