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....
>
In my earlier reply, I forgot to provide the following link, which
may be helpful:
http://www.zyxware.com/articles/591/fix-corrupted-iso-images-with-invalid-md5-checksum-using-bittorrent
(The link may be split over two lines.)
Jim
