Re: Mandriva 2011 download

Hi Phil
You could try, also try K3B to recreate the iso if you can't get the
original iso until your friend gets back. Try writing the iso to the pen
drive with uninet booting

On 30 August 2011 00:50, Phil <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:07:14 pm Jim Beard wrote:
> > On 08/29/2011 08:19 AM, Phil wrote:
> > > This may well be a dumb question but here goes.
> > >
> > > My Internet allowance won't allow me to download large files  so I
> asked
> > > a friend to downloaded what should have been an iso file. Instead the
> > > download includes three directories Addons, isolinux and LiveOS but not
> > > Mandriva.2011.i586.1.iso.
> > >
> > > Have I misunderstood something or could the download be incomplete?
> >
> > Your friend downloaded the wrong thing.  On carroll.cac.psu.edu,
> > the iso Mandriva.2011.i586.1.iso lives in
> > /pub/.mirrors/1/rsync.mandriva.com/ftp/MandrivaLinux/official
> > /iso/2011
> >
> > also known as
> > /pub/linux/distributions/mandrivalinux/official/iso/2011
> >
> > If you go to .../MandrivaLinux/official/2011 you get the set of
> > directories, which is not what you want.
> >
>
> Thanks Jim and John for your quick replies.
>
> I've contacted my friend and this is his response: "I put the iso file
> through
> Magic ISO to unzip it and then extracted the files to the USB Stick"
>
> Unfortunately, he has gone away for the week so I don't have access to the
> original download. Can I reverse what he has done to recover the original
> iso
> file?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Phil
>



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