[lug] FC3 download problems - MD5SUM fails

[Chip Atkinson]

I don't know about FC3, but one of the FC's that I downloaded a while back
had the same problem.  I noticed that the size of the images was even
wrong.  Still though, I mounted the images and did a diff -r and
everything was fine.  I never ended up installing it for other reasons,
but it seemed that I could read the disks just fine after writing them.

Chip

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Michael Deck wrote:

> I'm looking for any advice on downloading Fedora Core 3 iso's. So far I've 
> tried
> 
> * download via wget http from hiwaay mirror, burn using Nero (Win32), fail 
> mediacheck all 4 discs
> * download via wget http from hiwaay mirror, burn using cdrecord (FC1), 
> fail mediacheck
> * download via wget http from kernel.org mirror, burn using cdrecord -pad 
> (FC1), fail mediacheck
> 
> None of the above succeed even after booting nocddma and ide=nodma which 
> are suggested through some lists and on the Fedora FAQ. I hadn't considered 
> md5sum checking (d'oh) and was getting annoyed with the pile of dead CDs, 
> so I tried
> 
> * download via wget http from kernel.org mirror, md5sum fails
> * download via ftp from fedora.redhat.org, md5sum fails all 4 .iso files
> 
> So I'm stumped. I have a cable internet connection which isn't too too 
> slow, takes about +/- 40 minutes to download each .iso. I'd try the DVD but 
> I don't have quite the disk space for the image. (I download the iso's, 
> burn, and erase.)
> 
> My next step will probably be to just buy a KRUD set, which I don't mind 
> doing, but I'd like to understand what might be causing this problem for 
> future.
> 
> -Mike
> 
> 
> 
> Michael Deck
> Cleanroom Software Engineering, Inc.    
> 
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