Yahooooo...finallyyyy I decided to take your advice...and downloaded off another server...i think it was the tux one...and wahooo.finally was able to burn it correctly...nw i have the 1st and 2nd cd's only one more to do...
thanks -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dennis Myers Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 6:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Downloading MD ISOs On Saturday 31 May 2003 05:16 pm, KVPSTAFF wrote: > geez...it looks to me,,,if I'm using md5sum.exe correctly.. > that the number in the file called: md5sums.91.asc > is not the same as the file downloaded... > this is ridiculous...that mandrake would allow mirrors > that would mess up there files...like this... > geez, doesn't mandrake check these mirrors at all? > to make sure things like this doesn't happen? > boy you mean I have to keep downloading the same file off numerous > mirrors till one checks out...finally... > that's stupid. > Not, happens all the time, somebody dinks with the mirror or a ftp transfer gets fubared, that is why all of the iso.s and a lot of the security rpms have md5sums. So you can check em and make sure the d/l worked correctly. It doesn't happen that often, but it does happen. Try a different mirror or the same one with a new d/l. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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