We went round on this before. My suspicion is that they have (or had) one mirror with bad ISO images. Out of the 12 images I downloaded, all using IE on the same machine, two were bad. I didn't find out till I'd burned them, and couldn't mount them. I ended up tossing out at least 4 CD's before I figured out what was wrong.
I re-downloaded the two bad images, still on the same machine, and one came in correct (md5sum matched, and it was mountable). I had to download the other two more times before I got a good one. I don't recall exactly which discs they were, but they were both in the 31-bit set. All images for the 390x set were fine on the first try. Every bad image (for a given CD) had the same md5sum, which sort of rules out random corruption. The fact that I was eventually able to get them all good using the same process each time seems to rule out any persistent problem with IE. Besides, I download ISOs using that machine all the time, and never had this problem before. When I finally did get good copies, the md5sums matched the ones posted on the page. I'm speculating on this, but if they're using DNS to load balance between servers, and you're going through a DNS cache, it will tend to download from the same IP address every time, until the cache TTL expires. This MIGHT explain why people are getting bad images consistently until they switch machines. > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Rob > van der Heij > Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 3:27 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] SLES9 Install hang > > > On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 16:48:35 -0700, Ledbetter, Scott E > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Now I'm wondering about my SLES9 images. I downloaded all > 6 CDs for both 31 > > and 64 bit versions from the Novell website to my Win2K PC. > Not a single > > one matches the MD5 checksum on the Novell Download > webpage. This seems > > Downloading with Internet Explorer is probably the reason for > breaking. We had that in the past as well. It seems to be related to > whatever programs are associated with the mime type. I would not even > be surprised if it were inserting CRLF or so... > > > -- > Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO > LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > -------------------------------------------------------- If you are not an intended recipient of this e-mail, please notify the sender, delete it and do not read, act upon, print, disclose, copy, retain or redistribute it. Click here for important additional terms relating to this e-mail. http://www.ml.com/email_terms/ -------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
