On Wednesday 10 June 2009, rikona wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 10, 2009, 1:36:10 PM, Thomas Backlund wrote:
>
> TB> rikona skrev:
> >> No reply to the 'where' email, so on to the next question....
> >> ARE there any 2009.1 Powerpack par files? If not, how does one
> >> correct errors in the downloaded iso?
> >>
> >> hoping to be able to fix it....
>
> TB> par files ??
>
> Oops - I thought folks here would be familiar with these. PAR files
> contain error-correction data that can be used to fix files that
> become corrupted during the upload/download process. Mostly used to
> fix rar files, but can be used for anything. The file name ends in
> .par2 and the linux command is 'par2'.
>
> For example, I had an error in the 2008.1 Powerpack iso file
> download. There was a full set of par2 files on the Mandriva site.
> I downloaded these and was able to fix the error. The advantage of
> par files is that they are smaller, and can have errors which are
> also corrected in the 'fix' process. Excellent for fixing files...
>
> So, are there any 2009.1 Powerpack par files? :-) I could not find
> them. Would be verrrrry nice to have them....
>
I've no idea where the par files are, or if they were actually provided
for 2009.1.
You can use bittorrent to fix a corrupted iso. Start the torrent and
let it create the directory and file structure where the downloaded
files will be saved.. Then stop the torrent. Copy the corrupted iso to
the location created for the iso by bittorrent and then re-start the
torrent. Bittorrent should check the iso and download whatever chunks
are required to fix it.
At least that's the theory. I've never done it personally, but I've
read reports that it does work.
Jim
