On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> Can someone confirm that the md5sum file for mandrake70-2.iso on
> the ftp sites is wrong? It reports that the checksum for this
> file should be "3c753fa01628fd8deeccbbdf1e4524e8", but I've
> downloaded it from different servers to different linux machines
> using both ftp and http, and I always get the same md5sum value:
> "6f01a2df94f8f39d6c73245e9bc87ada".
>
Hmm...if that IS the case, that might explain why I keep getting SOME
coasters, even though I've burned the CDs the same way as the ones
that reported fine.
However, I just ran the md5sum generator against the ISO image on my
machine and it APPEARS to be the one you list as the "proper" ISO
checksum.
Ok. I just checked the checksum *I* generated with the one that
I downloaded from Mandrake. They match. Sorry, cannot verify.
You must have a bad ISO image. My *guess* is that you have some
errors being generated during download. I'd run some ping tests
between you and your dial-up server there at UTEXAS.EDU as well as
ping/traceroute (suggest you get and install MTR for this purpose) to
att.net, which is your immediate upstream provider for the University
of Texas.
John
