[TriLUG] RedHat 7.1 ISOs don't work...

Matt Jezorek matt at bluelinux.org
Fri Oct 19 10:07:14 EDT 2001


I have never once had a problem with a ISO from anywhere. Is there a problem
with wget? I just use lynx to download them seems to work great. Just
wondering if there is a bug in wget that would cause that or what would
cause them to corrupt.

Matt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sinner from the Prairy" <sinner at escomposlinux.org>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] RedHat 7.1 ISOs don't work...


> On Friday 19 October 2001 09:39 am, you wrote:
> > Me & a friend have burned 5 RedHat 7.1 isos on two separate pc's and
none
> > work.  We tried the ISOs from Trilugs mirror and one from RedHat but
they
> > all will either crashes my pc as Adaptec CD Creator finishes or cause my
> > Win box to reboot spontaneously on reading the cd.  Any ideas?  Does
> > adaptec software not like the 7.1 ISOs?
>
> Do you test the ISO files first with md5sum?
>
> A really annoying problem is getting a huge file from internet that it is
not
> exactly equal to the one in the FTP server. I hated when I got different
md5
> sums 3 times in a row when downloading Mandrake 8.1 !!! arghhh!!!
>
> On Linux:
>
> 1.-Download the file (+/-650 MB each)
> 2.-Download the md5sums text file (+/- 1 Kb)
> 3.-[sinner at sal10000 isos]$md5sum RedHat-7.1-Disc-01-i386.iso (or whatever
the
> name is)
> 4.-compare result with md5sum file (use diff and cat)
> 5.-If the long hexadecimal string is equal in both cases, burn the image.
If
> it is not, well, rm -f and wget again.
>
> On Windows:
>
> google for a md5 checker program for Windows and do something similar to
the
> Linux thing on Windows.
>
>
>
> Salut,
> Sinner
> --
> "I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your
father
> smelt of elderberries!"
> RedHat QA Test Engineer  --  Running RedHat 7.2beta on i386smp
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