On Sun, 7 Jan 2001 01:46:48 -0800, Mark Symonds said:
>
> Hi,
>
> Trying to make an ISO of potato on a windows
> box here. Following the instructions, I ran
> make-pseudo-image and now have a file called
> binary-i386-1.iso in the directory which is
> 634,220KB in size. Finally, I am to patch
> this file to make the "Official" ISO. Per
> the instructions:
>
> c:\windows\desktop\debian> rsync --verbose --progress --stats
> --block-size=8192
> rsync.kernel.org::debian-cd/2.2_rev2/i386/binary-i386-1.iso .
> NOTE: THIS IS A MODIFIED VERSION OF RSYNC.
> [...]
> <motd from kernel.org here>
> [...]
>
> .... and that's it. The hdd goes wild for about five minutes, and then
> it silently drops me back to a prompt. The pseudo-image is unchanged.
> hrmm ... maybe it downloaded PERFECTLY?! Try to burn it to a CD with
> Adaptec Easy CD Creator, "this is not a valid ISO". md5sums don't
> match either.
>
> Any ideas?
>
I did this a while back and what i remeber is that i had to
remove the block-size option to get rsync to work.