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12 Aug 2014 17:33 #49748 by ericg
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I am using Linuxcnc V2.5.4 quite happily but would like to upgrade to 2.6.x,
I cannot seem to get a straightforward .iso download for hybrid.iso (if that is what I need)
I do not run windows, I run linux for everything, how do I download the .iso under linux so I can burn a dvd then install on a second spare PC I have?

I was not comfortable with the debian wheezy download using zsync, that did not seem an appropriate download to me as well as taking forever.

thanks for any pointers and help

Eric

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12 Aug 2014 18:14 #49751 by BigJohnT
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I use wget usually to download on Linux.

JT

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12 Aug 2014 19:02 #49756 by ericg
Replied by ericg on topic Latest Linuxcnc .iso
Of course! dumb of me
Thanks, JT the download is happening as I write this reply.
Still taking forever though.

Eric

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12 Aug 2014 22:46 - 13 Aug 2014 00:19 #49765 by ArcEye
Replied by ArcEye on topic Latest Linuxcnc .iso
The advantage of zsync, is that like rsync for backups, it does incremental transfers.
Thus it only downloads what has changed, when an update is downloaded

I am not altogether sure that this works for an .iso though, it is liable to see it as a single file and just download it again.

I am probably going to have to try it to find out! B)

EDIT

Just done it and zsync www.linuxcnc.org/binary.hybrid.iso
downloaded the whole thing again, despite the file to be downloaded being in PWD

However going back to the original post from Chris, what he actually said was to use
zsync www.linuxcnc.org/binary.hybrid.iso.zsync

This loads a meta data file, which enables zsync to compare the local copy with the one in the repo

The print I got when running it shows it checked, found nothing changed so did not download anything

$: zsync www.linuxcnc.org/binary.hybrid.iso.zsync
#################### 100.0% 359.6 kBps DONE

reading seed file binary.hybrid.iso: ********************
verifying download...checksum matches OK
used 1174405120 local, fetched 0


and it writes the output to a new file, archiving the old one.

The docs say it cannot open compressed files unless they are made with a zsync version of zip, so it is unlikely
that it can read the main bulk of the files in the iso, as they are in a cramfs file, even if it can read the iso.

Jury is out, I will try again when I know it has changed.
I suspect the only advantage is that it automatically does a checksum
Last edit: 13 Aug 2014 00:19 by ArcEye.

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