Re: [newbie] cable modem - attenuator - bad md5sums
bascule now, when i did this sort of thing with dial up i only had one bascule md5sum fail, but with my new super fast cable job (70 Kbyte/s bascule ish) despite gozilla claiming that all downloads were bascule successful the md5sum is different in every case ... I'd try using a non-browser ftp or http client. I don't know what's available on Windows, but there are bound to be other options for downloading those files. Another possibility is to make sure your browser associates files ending in .iso with the MIME type application/octet-stream. I wonder if maybe it's trying to download them as plain text and hosing up literal newline or carriage return characters in the process. -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (847)971-7098
[newbie] cable modem - attenuator - bad md5sums
hi folks, this is more of a hardware/general computer problem, but it's affecting my ability to get linux back after i decided to do a major restucturing of my system! i have an odd enquiry, i have just had a cable modem installed (ntl - uk) and went straight to download lm 8.0. i have had to download each iso about 5 times to get ones that didn't fail the md5sum and i am still downloading the -ext.iso now! now, when i did this sort of thing with dial up i only had one md5sum fail, but with my new super fast cable job (70 Kbyte/s ish) despite gozilla claiming that all downloads were successful the md5sum is different in every case, thinking frantically i remembered that the engineer left me an attenuator for the modem saying i might need it, is it possible that a signal that is too strong might 'distort' a download such that all the checks of download software could be fooled? i don't think so but it's the only explanation i have left, i cannot think of any reason why the resulting files should be wrong, i have three hard drives in my machine and i have downloaded to them all! i have the attenuator on now and i am trying to download, in a couple of hours i will see if i have a correct file, if any one can suggest avenues of investigation into what can cause files to be corrupted despite all appearances then i would be grateful, tia bascule
Re: [newbie] cable modem - attenuator - bad md5sums
I don't have any suggestions on troubleshooting your cable modem, but a suggestion -- why don't you use rsync to try to correct the downloaded iso rather than repeating the entire download. If you need help setting it up, write back with the URL of the mirror you use (and ideally, the complete path to the iso you're trying to download). rsync cuts down on bandwidth usage which speeds up your transfer and reduces bandwidth usage on the Internet. Hope this helps, Randy Kramer bascule wrote: hi folks, this is more of a hardware/general computer problem, but it's affecting my ability to get linux back after i decided to do a major restucturing of my system! i have an odd enquiry, i have just had a cable modem installed (ntl - uk) and went straight to download lm 8.0. i have had to download each iso about 5 times to get ones that didn't fail the md5sum and i am still downloading the -ext.iso now! now, when i did this sort of thing with dial up i only had one md5sum fail, but with my new super fast cable job (70 Kbyte/s ish) despite gozilla claiming that all downloads were successful the md5sum is different in every case, thinking frantically i remembered that the engineer left me an attenuator for the modem saying i might need it, is it possible that a signal that is too strong might 'distort' a download such that all the checks of download software could be fooled? i don't think so but it's the only explanation i have left, i cannot think of any reason why the resulting files should be wrong, i have three hard drives in my machine and i have downloaded to them all! i have the attenuator on now and i am trying to download, in a couple of hours i will see if i have a correct file, if any one can suggest avenues of investigation into what can cause files to be corrupted despite all appearances then i would be grateful, tia bascule