On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 21:27 +0000, Bob Hartung wrote: > Would someone please enlighten me: > > The size of the DVD-iso of FC3 is listed as : > 2466410496 bytes > I have downloaded it three times from three > separate sources and each time it is listed > as size: 2147483647 bytes > > Needless to say it fails the MD5SUM test. What is the cause of > this behavior? Sites used include mirrors.kernel.org amongst others. > Have you confirmed that your ftp client is using binary mode? Some clients default to ASCII mode and using ASCII mode with a binary file results in a different file size and corrupt data. HTH
