On Sunday 24 May 2009, craig morroni wrote: >If one can't go to the fedoraproject.org website and not get a corrupt >image, where does one go? Has anyone else downloaded this site image >and getting results (i.e. the ability to load the OS)? > >I have downloaded the image to two different computers from this website. > >John Aldrich wrote: >> Did you verify the hash to make sure you'd not gotten a corrupted image? >> That's what it sounds like happened. 2 questions. The most important being 'how' did you download it. Windows stuff is very fond of treating any download as a text download, and it will conveniently convert any carriage returns in finds into linefeed+carriage returns in order to match the windows way of doing things. It is NOT a mistake in their eyes, and they take great delight in having screwed up and made non-usable, yet another binary download just because downloading a binary just HAS to be a pirated copy of windows _as_ _they_ _see_ _it_. These downloads all have the ability to be checked with a check program, and it could be either sha1sum or md5sum. sha1sum is several times more secure than md5sum, but md5sum will also catch 99.9999999999% of the errors. So, check your download using one of those utilities, and if the copy you downloaded tests good, then the burner program should work IF you tell it to burn the file using that file as an iso image. If, when the burned disk is reloaded into the drive, you see a single file of the same name as the one you burnt, THAT BURN IS WRONG. You should be seeing a directory listing of what is on the cd, not another copy of the file you burnt. The iso image is exactly that, a complete, self contained filesystem that when mounted using the iso9660 option as the filesystem, shows you the contents of that filesystem. And if your bios can boot from the cd, it should do so automatically on the reboot. IHTH. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> electro-magnetic pulses from French above ground nuke testing. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
