On 2004-11-08 00:41, Mark Jayson Alvarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good day! > After downloading disc1 and disc2 of freebsd 5.3, my boss told me to > verify the download using md5.
Good thinking. > And to my surprise, none of those two iso's have the same md5 as that > of the md5 written in CHECKSUM.md5. Some times, if you start downloading an ISO image while it is still being uploaded to the ftp-master server or while a mirror still fetches the same ISO image from ftp-master, what you get is an incomplete download. Try comparing the sizes of the files on the remote server after a while. If it has changed, the ISO iamge is still being uploaded to the FTP server; wait a bit and retry. > Question: > On the middle of my download, how will I know if I'm still downloading > the correct file, that no packet is being dropped and that I will end up in > a perfect mirror file download? Do you know any downloading tool that will > do just like this? Earlier, I just used the konqueror when I downloaded > those ISO's. Is it really that hard to download? We're using E1 modems and > our internet connection is quite fast. I'm just thinking, we are still lucky > because of this. But how about those people with low bandwidth internet > connection? Do they have a choice? All this should be handled gracefully by the TCP network. AFAIK, there is no easy way to verify half of a file while it's still being downloaded over FTP. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
