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I've downloaded the ISO for disk 1 of Fedora Core 4 several times now. Each time, the file size is the same, but each time, I get a different sha1sum, and it never matches the one listed in the directory.
Posted by Rand Simberg at June 21, 2005 09:43 AM
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(The following is an expression of my lack of knowledge of such things and must not be taken as insulting or critical of anyone other than myself.)
Whaa? I see your lips moving but all I hear is gibberish.
Seriously good luck with the checksum. (Checksum - izzat right?)
Posted by Blog.Dog at June 21, 2005 10:30 AM
Yes, if you don't understand it, it's not meant for you. It's not a checksum, though--it's a hash.
Posted by Rand Simberg at June 21, 2005 10:32 AM
What program and protocol (ftp, http, or P2P) are you using? What OS are you running under? Are you behind a firewall? I'd try changing programs and/or protocols. The following programs are recommended:
NcFTP (ftp)
Internet Explorer (ftp, http)
Firefox (ftp, http)
Bittorrent (peer-to-peer)
Azureus (peer-to-peer)
Posted by James A. Paget at June 21, 2005 01:50 PM
I'm using a Fedora Core 3 machine, with Firefox and http. I am behind a firewall (just a D-Link router), but I don't see how that would munge the files. I would think that I would either download them through it, or not.
I'm going to give it another try, via ftp, from a mirror site.
Posted by Rand Simberg at June 21, 2005 02:34 PM
I torrented my images and that went ok. If curl keeps giving you garbage, it's a good reason to complain loudly to fedora-list, IMHO. But perhaps it's better to look into list archives first.
Posted by Pete Zaitcev at June 21, 2005 08:18 PM
FTP has zero error correction. These are very large files, so even a 1e-5 change for error will flip some bits. If your line is noisy bad things can happen.
Bittorrent and most of the recent P2P programs have built-in error detection, so I would suggest you try using that.
Posted by Gojira at June 22, 2005 06:49 AM
chance, not change :-)
Posted by Gojira at June 22, 2005 06:50 AM
You would have gotten extra geek points had you put it this way.
s/change/chance/
:-)
Posted by Slam Smith at June 22, 2005 08:14 AM
Got better things to do rather than spew out l33t sed commands all the time. ;-)
Posted by Gojira at June 22, 2005 10:43 AM
I've had the same trouble, and will use this info. I would like to add that, you could also get it with all the packages with only the first cd, and (obviously) an internet connection. Run the installation for the minimal packages. then once installed, log in, and type:
yum update
yum install XFree86 *Gnome* *kde*
and any other package you want by typing: Yum list | less
Reboot, login, then type from the prompt: startx
This worked for Fedora Core 1, I don't see why it shouldn't work for this version.
Posted by sid at January 19, 2006 02:42 PM
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