By the way Jon, your outgoing mail name isn't showing up, its just "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" so double check your client settings!
On 10/19/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am, in fact, an idiot: The provided checksums are SHA1 and not MD5.
Still doesn't explain why the disks are failing the FC media check, but it
makes a lot more sense than every freakin' FC ISO on the planet being
corrupted...
Back to sleep.
J
Original Message:
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From: Mitchell Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:24:00 -0600
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected]
Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Looking for FC 5 ISOs
You might try the BitTorrent, often they work alot better then HTTP
downloads.
On 10/19/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm looking for a "good" download site for FC 5 CDs (yes, my laptop
> doesn't
> seem to want to boot from DVDs for some reason). I downloaded them all
> from
> the U of C mirror last night, but they appear to be corrupt. The checksum
> doesn't pan out on any of the files. I re-downloaded a couple and
> checksummed them again and the checksums were the same from the first
> time,
> but still don't match the official FC 5 checksums. Further, this isn't a
> documentation error because the disks really do crap out on install and
> they all fail the FC 5 media check.
>
> I then downloaded a few ISOs from the Telus mirror and they were toast as
> well. Those checksums matched the ones from the ISOs I downloaded from U
> of
> C which means they also failed to match the proper checksums. This also
> means that it's not a download or burn problem.
>
> So, in my very rudimentary investigation, it seems to me that the main FC
> 5
> site has corrupted ISOs which are being mirrored all over the place.
> However, I didn't have time before work to try an ISO from every FC mirror
> so perhaps it's more limited than that.
>
> I need FC tonight. Anyone have a handle on where I can find some good
> ISOs?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jon
>
>
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