[TriLUG] Download corruption

[Warren Myers]

dumb question: but had the file actually finished downloading?

WMM

On 4/27/07, Glenn Starling <GJStarling at charter.net> wrote:
>
> Before doing an upgrade from the AMD-64 version of Ubuntu 6.10 I decided
> to download and burn a CD to use if I needed to reinstall should the
> upgrade not work correctly.  I downloaded the file to the Downloads
> directory off my home directory, and ran the md5sum program to check for
> file corruption errors.  There was corruption, so I re-downloaded and
> repeated the above.  Different numbers, but still no match to the
> published MD5SUM results.  Note the md5sum command gave different
> results the first and second time I ran it on the same .iso file which
> had been downloaded.  After running md5sum a couple of times, the number
> stabilizes.  See the results below.  Any ideas?
>
> The published MD5SUM file contains this line:
> a2b159599b69cea51371eee1ec5feda6 *ubuntu-7.04-desktop-amd64.iso
>
> My results are:
> glenn at penguin:~/Downloads$ md5sum ubuntu-7*
> 12ca7ddf4d000ad12a0323bc90391976  ubuntu-7.04-desktop-amd64.iso
> glenn at penguin:~/Downloads$ md5sum ubuntu-7.04-desktop-amd64.iso
> 964495151ad214c10244ab67990ac972  ubuntu-7.04-desktop-amd64.iso
> glenn at penguin:~/Downloads$ md5sum ubuntu-7*
> 564e426c7e90c4c5b215751932eaeb79  ubuntu-7.04-desktop-amd64.iso
> glenn at penguin:~/Downloads$ md5sum ubuntu-7.04-desktop-amd64.iso
> 564e426c7e90c4c5b215751932eaeb79  ubuntu-7.04-desktop-amd64.iso
> glenn at penguin:~/Downloads$
>
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