Re: rsync

[B0Ti <9915104t@example.com>]

B0Ti wrote:

> The corruption is not because of "unstable".
> I got the 5 cd set downloaded by a friend who burned them for me.  I happily started the
> installation, but the fifth cd was physically damaged and the 2nd I couldn't get apt to
> correctly read the packages data.
> I proceeded with the install though and now I have almost a bare bones system.
> Then I copied all the stuff that was readable from the cds to my harddisk, but still
> can't get apt to work with it because of the Packages files are not correct.
> I only have less than 200 megs missing.
>
>
> Right now i'm looking at the mirror perl proggy hoping that it can upgrade and correct
> my woody install tree.

Answering to myself:
On this page there is a mirroring script using rsync (indeed):
http://www.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror

So I edited it, since I only need the i386 stuff.  It's running now and in a few hours I'll
see what it has done, and then probably curse ;-)

B0Ti.