Mike, I tried the iso on the thumb drive you copied from, and the iso mounted on my Mac just fine. Then I tried it on my OpenSUSE system, and was able to open the iso with File Roller. Also, I checked the MD5 on the Mac and it matched.
Clearly, another interesting mystery! I'll try downloading the torrent and see if I get anything different. --Don Ellis On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Bob Therina <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
