On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 12:05:48AM +0000, Jon Domke wrote: > >I'm concerned because I've downloaded five separate DVD images using >your BitTorrent links and only one of the five passes the MD5 >checksum verification. I'm on >http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.5.0/i386/bt-dvd/and only >debian-8.5.0-i386-DVD-1.iso.torrent passes. The other four DVD images >fail based on the data found in the MD5SUMS file. This is very >concerning. What should I do? My MD5 software displays what the >checksum is supposed to be and with those four files its nothing even >close nor are then numbers found in any of the verification files >posted. Please help.
Hi Jon, What size are the files you're getting from bittorrent? It should be using internal checksums already, so it's very difficult for a bittorrent download to produce corrupt output without errors. >From what you're seeing, I'd *guess* that it's a 4GiB file size limit on your computer - DVD1 is explicitly designed to fit in 4GiB, but the later ones are bigger... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] "Since phone messaging became popular, the young generation has lost the ability to read or write anything that is longer than one hundred and sixty characters." -- Ignatios Souvatzis
