I grabbed a torrent the other day of something else and it's properties gave the size of the full file before I had the whole thing. I would suppose that someone could have an erroneous file that they thought was good, create a torrent from it in which the metadata in the torrent file tells the tracker that it's 600 MB.
These are the MD5's for 10.10 a8d8e24bf8b82b4302d074fcac380d65 *ubuntu-10.10-alternate-amd64.iso 419ad8ee1bb76a49490f4a08b5be43f0 *ubuntu-10.10-alternate-i386.iso 1b9df87e588451d2ca4643a036020410 *ubuntu-10.10-desktop-amd64.iso 59d15a16ce90c8ee97fa7c211b7673a8 *ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso 6877bf8d673b87ba9500b0ff879091d0 *ubuntu-10.10-netbook-i386.iso ab66a1d59a8d78e9ea8ef9b021d6574a *ubuntu-10.10-server-amd64.iso ce1cee108de737d7492e37069eed538e *ubuntu-10.10-server-i386.iso d1db1f93bb7486593b7d1ea023c0e3f8 *wubi.exe On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Mike B. <[email protected]> wrote: > The iso of Ubuntu 10.10 that I got at the meeting on Sunday must have > had some errors, or maybe the message saying copying the iso was > complete was in error (Ext4). Anyway, when I burned the file, it > failed to boot all the way and opening the file showed there was no > way it took up 600+ Megs. > > So, I decided to download a torrent of it and burn that. Which I did, > and it contained Zero bytes inside a 630+ Meg file. At first I > thought the CD burner might have failed, and burned another. No luck, > still zero bytes. I decided to just burn a jpg to a cd to check it-- > and that worked fine. > > This leads me to a poser. Does anyone know if it's possible to seed > errors via a torrent so that nothing gets transferred? I'm just not > sure what's going on here, whether it's deliberate error seeding or > just some random accident. > > I know I did disconnect once. Then I had to pause downloading for it > to continue again. And I suppose that could have been the cause. > > -- > Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) > Main page: http://www.cwelug.org > To post: [email protected] > To subscribe: [email protected] > To unsubscribe: [email protected] > More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
